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COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCES
Anthropology
Mentoring Liaison: Rosemary Joyce, Chair
anthro_chair@berkeley.edu
In the anthropology department, the role of faculty mentoring liaison will be carried out by the Department Chair, Rosemary Joyce. The department's plan is to develop mentoring practices for its largest cohort of "junior" faculty, who are in fact Associate Professors, in the fall of 2009. Taking the "liaison" part of the designated role as key, the Chair will undertake to match faculty with possible mentors; to introduce mentors to best practices resources; and, in the event that the department has new assistant professors in the future, to develop a policy under which on arrival each new assistant professor is assigned a mentor who is in turn provided support as a mentor.
Demography
Mentoring Liaison: Mike Hout, Chair
mikehout@berkeley.edu
Earth and Planetary Science
Mentoring Liaison: Roland Burgmann, Chair
burgmann@seismo.berkeley.edu
The Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science acts as mentoring
liaison and
meets at least on a yearly basis with junior faculty. While mentoring at EPS
is mostly
informal in nature, a senior colleague is assigned as mentor for each junior
faculty member. The role of the mentor is to provide advice and general
insights about faculty life and complements the more formal role of the
chair by providing guidance during personnel reviews. Generally, all senior
faculty act as advisors and advocates for their junior colleagues.
Communication between faculty is enhanced by weekly faculty meetings which
allow for both formal discussions of department business and informal
conversations. Several meetings are dedicated to "EPS Conversations", in
which faculty informally discuss recent research interests. A number of
departmental seminar series and associated social gatherings allow for
further interactions.
Economics
Mentoring Liaison: Gerard Roland, Chair
groland@econ.berkeley.edu
Faculty Mentoring in Economics
French Department
Mentoring Liaison: Michael Lucey, Chair
mlucey@berkeley.edu
In the French Department mentoring practices are mostly informal. New junior faculty members will be assigned a senior colleague to act as mentor through the moment of tenure, and the department chair will also meet regularly with junior faculty to answer questions regarding procedures and policy as well as to review teaching, research, and professional activities and obligations as well as any other areas of concern or interest. The chair will also have regular informal conversations with Associate Professors and Professors regarding their professional concerns, obligations, aspirations, and development. Committee assignments in the department are done carefully to make sure that no one is overburdened, while everyone is progressively familiarized with all areas of departmental life and responsibility. Faculty are highly encouraged to participate in intellectual life on campus outside the department, and are also encouraged, when at the appropriate level of advancement, to perform service duties outside the department. A vibrant and highly participatory series of colloquia, seminars, lectures, and conferences by visitors as well as our own faculty provides many informal moments for intellectual collaboration and for mutual mentoring as regards intellectual development.
Gender & Women's Studies
Mentoring Liaison: Minoo Moallem, Chair
mmoallem@berkeley.edu
German
Mentoring Liaison: Niklaus Largier, Professor
nlargier@berkeley.edu
History
Mentoring Liaison: Mary Elizabeth Berry, Chair
meberry@berkeley.edu
Integrative Biology
Mentoring Liaison: Zac Powell, Professor
zackp@berkeley.edu
Italian
Mentoring Liaison: Barbara Spackman, Chair
spackman@berkeley.edu
Mentoring practices are, for the most part, informal. Other than yearly meetings between the junior faculty members and the Chair, most mentoring takes place through informal conversations. There is a very active colloquium series and many social events. The Chair mentors Associate Professors by holding yearly meetings and occasional discussions with the Dean about their status and by providing a general climate of support and exchange.
Linguistics
Mentoring Liaison: Andrew Garrett, Professor
garrett@berkeley.edu
Mathematics
Mentoring Liaison: Alan Weinstein, Chair
alanw@math.berkeley.edu
There is informal mentoring for the small number of faculty who are hired at the Assistant Professor level. Senior faculty act as advisors and advocates for the junior colleagues. In addition, the Chair serves to continually advise junior faculty concerning the tenure process at Berkeley. Finally, the Department's Teaching Committee provides peer visits to faculty to assist them with adjusting to the teaching culture here.
Molecular & Cell Biology
Mentoring Liaison: Steve Martin, Chair
gsm@berkeley.edu
MCB Policy on Mentoring of Junior Faculty
Music
Mentoring Liaison: Bonnie Wade, Chair
bcwade@berkeley.edu
Philosophy
Mentoring Liaison: Jay Wallace, Chair
rjw@berkeley.edu
Mentoring practices involve assignments of senior colleagues to serve as faculty mentors for each member of our junior faculty. Assigned mentors meet frequently with the junior faculty assigned to them to discuss all aspects of professional life. Assistant professors are also actively encouraged to seek feedback and guidance from all tenured members of the department. In addition, the department chair meets at least once per semester with each assistant professor to answer any questions the untenured faculty members might have about teaching, research, professional activities and obligations, participation in departmental life, balance of professional and personal life, etc. At the end of the year, the assistant professor's teaching and research record is reviewed, and constructive feedback is offered by the department chair, with the goal of helping the colleague to understand and to meet the university's requirements and expectations for promotion to tenure.
Physics
Mentoring Liaison: Frances Hellman, Professor
fhellman@berkeley.edu
Physics Junior Faculty Mentoring
Psychology
Mentoring Liaison: Steve Palmer, Professor
palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu
Psychology Junior Faculty Mentoring Program
Each mentor is assigned to a junior faculty. Tenure review workshops are conducted for the junior faculty. A program is also offered to the junior faculty whereby once or twice a month, a senior faculty member will come in for a talk on running lab meetings, publishing, teaching, etc, in a casual setting.
Rhetoric
Mentoring Liaison: Michael Mascuch, Chair
mascuch@berkeley.edu
Sociology
Mentoring Liaison: Trond Petersen, Chair and Professor
trond@haas.berkeley.edu
Spanish/Portuguese
Mentoring Liaison: Michael Mascuch, Acting Chair
mascuch@berkeley.edu
The department chair appoints a senior faculty member for each new junior faculty member. Senior faculty members provide guidance on matters of networking with colleagues inside and outside the department, supporting research in the broadest sense, understanding local academic culture, etc.
HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Mentoring Liaison: Ganesh Iyer, Professor
giyer@haas.berkeley.edu
COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY
Chemistry
Mentoring Liaison: Michael Marletta, Chair
marletta@berkeley.edu
Chemical Engineering
Mentoring Liaison: Jeffrey Reimer, Chair
reimer@berkeley.edu
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Mentoring Liaison: David Pearson, Dean
ppearson@berkeley.edu
Graduate School of Education Faculty Mentoring Policy
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Bioengineering
Mentoring Liaison: Teresa Head-Gordon, Professor and Vice Chair of Faculty Welfare
tlhead-gordon@lbl.gov
All new faculty are assigned a faculty mentor. Mentors help integrate new faculty into the culture of the department and the campus and provide advice on all aspects of their professional development. Mentors help junior faculty to develop strategies to manage their time and balance their responsibilities in research, teaching, and service; introduce them to colleagues and potential collaborators; and provide some tips to navigating the complex Berkeley bureaucracy. Most importantly, mentors provide support and guidance during personnel reviews.
Computer Science
Mentoring Liaison: Stuart Russell, Chair
russell@cs.berkeley.edu
Each new faculty member is assigned a senior faculty member as a mentor. The mentor is expected to meet with the faculty member to discuss all aspects of an academic career. Often, the mentor includes the new faculty member in joint project proposals, research meetings, etc. Generally the chair asks the mentor, and perhaps other faculty with suitable expertise, to visit the new faculty member's classroom to observe and provide feedback on teaching. Finally, the chair meets with new faculty members at least annually to discuss progress.
Electrical Engineering
Mentoring Liaison: Costas Spanos, Associate Chair
spanos@eecs.berkeley.edu
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Mentoring Liaison: Rhonda Righter, Professor
rrighter@ieor.berkeley.edu
A climate of mentoring in which members of the department spontaneously and informally mentor new colleagues is fostered. Senior faculty members are encouraged to work with junior faculty resulting in much collaborative research. Weekly department seminars are organized by junior/senior faculty pairs, which provide an informal mentoring opportunity and help the junior faculty member establish ties to researchers outside of the university. The department chair also acts as an informal mentor, giving feedback on teaching and research.
Materials Science and Engineering
Mentoring Liaison: Robert Ritchie, Chair
ritchie@berkeley.edu
Faculty Mentoring Plan
COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Architecture
Mentoring Liaison: Mary Comerio, Chair
mcomerio@berkeley.edu
COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Mentoring Liaison: Allen Goldstein, Chair
ahg@nature.berkeley.edu
ESPM Faculty Mentoring
SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY
Mentoring Liaison: Dennis Levi, Chair
dlevi@berkeley.edu
Current practices are informal. Both the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Chair spend time discussing development and advancement with new faculty, and for new Assistant Professors, a faculty mentor is designated. In addition, the Department has created a "young at heart club" in which new faculty, along with few senior faculty, get together informally for a lab tour and dinner about once every six weeks.
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Mentoring Liaison: Tom Rundall, Executive Associate Dean
trundall@berkeley.edu
GOLDMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
Mentoring Liaison: Steven Raphael, Professor
stevenraphael@berkeley.edu
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFARE
School of Social Welfare Faculty Mentoring
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