A comprehensive mentoring network designed to support individual faculty members who identify as being of color, Connections mentors full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty by identifying and challenging historical, institutional, and industry bias and oversight. We aim to:
Support and facilitate faculty development
...personally and professionally, through one-to-one mentoring and group networking.
Increase cross-institution collaboration and networking opportunities
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Offer professional learning opportunities
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What do we do?
We provide holistic professional development through network mentoring and professional development opportunities including:
Monthly Mentoring Mixers: A safe-space, topic-centered lunch
- Coding and Decoding Conversations with Colleagues
- Publish not Perish: The Engaged Scholar
- Career Advancement: Surviving Tenure and Promotion
- Wellness Strategies
- Pathways to Leadership
Scholarly Writing Accountability Group (SWAG): Faculty Writing/Research Retreats, Funding/Fellowship Workshops (Fulbright, NEH, NIH, etc.)
Dr. Rhea Estelle Lathan
Associate Professor
English Department
Dr. Tamara Bertrand Jones
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies