Faculty Mentoring Program (FMP)

The specific goals of FMP are to:

  1. Help new faculty feel welcomed and part of the university community
  2. Create a support system for junior faculty through networking
  3. Encourage collegiality by sharing knowledge and expertise
  4. Make junior faculty aware of professional and personal opportunities available to them at the University
  5. Inform junior faculty of the promotion and tenure process and their role in the annual department evaluation process

Schedule of Seminars

Fall Semester 2012

Wednesday, Sept. 19
4:00-6:00pm 
Trustee Board Room
1st Floor, Thompson Hall

Introduction to Program and a Panel Dialogue about Networking and Career Goal Setting
A panel of senior faculty from each school/college will discuss resources, challenges, opportunities and views on networking and career goal setting. Dialogue will address workplace expectations and desires of the newest generation of faculty/scholars as they navigate the tenure process.

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Wednesday, Oct. 24
4:00-6:00pm 
Trustee Board Room
1st Floor, Thompson Hall 

 

Promotion and Tenure Workshop: Part 1
An interactive session where faculty from various schools and colleges who have completed their first year annual evaluation, third-year review, and tenure and promotion process will share ideas about what works and what doesn't in university teaching, scholarly research, and professional service. These faculty members will offer ideas about successful strategies that can be used to achieve promotion and tenure, as well as, discuss pitfalls that should be avoided. Candid advice about the P&T process at UNH will be shared.

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Spring Semester 2013

Wednesday,  Feb 27 
4:00-6:00 pm
Trustee Board Room
1st Floor, Thompson Hall 

Implicit Bias

New faculty confront an arena where social context and hierarchy are not always clear, yet these matters rightly concern new faculty as they navigate their way through the institutional structure, particularly, of course, their way to tenure. At the same time, new faculty are perfecting their teaching approach and skills. This workshop will introduce emerging research in social cognition that can offer new methods for understanding relationships and messages in the context of the academy. Three areas will be discussed: implicit bias, micromessaging, and group relationships. All three involve unconscious and often unintended messages, actions, and decisions, which are cumulative and can contribute to how good a teacher one is and how good a teacher and colleague one is perceived to be.

Presenter: Sarah E. Redfield, Professor Emerita, UNH School of Law

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Wednesday, April 10
4:00-6:00 pm
Trustee Board Room
1st Floor, Thompson Hall		Promotion and Tenure Workshop: Part II
An interactive session where the Provost, deans, chairs, and senior faculty will offer ideas about successful strategies that can be used to achieve promotion and tenure, as well as, discuss the junior faculty's role in the annual departmental evaluation process. Candid advice about P&T and the annual faculty evaluation process will be shared.

NOTE: This program has been postponed until Fall 2013