In January 2006 the Mentoring Task Force was launched to take a broad look at the status of faculty mentoring at The University of Iowa.
Final Report and Recommendations (pdf) - November 1, 2007- News release: Provost releases report of mentoring task force - November 7, 2007
Task Force Charge
- Review documented best practices in the literature and from other institutions for mentoring of junior faculty members.
- Create a compendium of best practices currently being used by units (colleges, department, and programs) on the University of Iowa campus.
- Identify mentoring practices that may be particularly useful to junior faculty members who are women or minorities.
- Propose one or two specific, relatively low cost, pilot mentoring programs for implementation on the UI campus.
Deliverables
- Compendium of best practices for distribution to the campus.
- One or more pilot projects.
Task Force Membership
- Usha Mallik, Physics and Astronomy, Co-Chair
- Susan Johnson, Associate Provost for Faculty, Co-Chair
- Thomas Casavant, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ophthalmology
- Catherine Cole, Marketing
- Marcus Haack, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
- Pamela Geyer, Biochemistry
- Michael Lovaglia, Sociology
- David Manderscheid, Mathematics
- Nancy Rosenthal, Pathology
- Steven Ungar, Cinema and Comparative Literature, and French & Italian
- Rachel Williams, Art Education