This site, hosted by the UF Counseling and Wellness Center, includes resources for learning about diversity and how to be “an active advocate and leader for social change”. Learn about multicultural competencies and improve your skills for being a better ally and mentor to all! Read: BAM! Best Allyship Movement
The National Academies has published a report on the science of mentorship, and it is freely available online! While “report” sounds quite technical, this is actually a book whose chapters focus on subjects that include what mentorship is, why identity matters in the STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine) fields, the forms mentorship can […]
NPR published this nice piece last week on how to find a mentor and what to do once you’ve found one. It’s not specifically focused on the sciences, but it has a lot of great ideas and suggestions about what to look for in a mentor, how to ask someone to be your mentor, and […]
Kognito is a free, online simulation that will teach you techniques to recognize and help students in distress. Trainings include a general introduction to learning the signs of psychological distress, and specific modules focused on assisting student veterans and LGBTQ+ students who may be facing discrimination.
An Individual Development Plan, or IDP, is a personalized, structured document that assists with goal setting and facilitating communication between mentors and mentees. Graduate students in the UC Davis Graduate Group in Plant Biology have developed extremely helpful materials for learning about and producing an IDP, and these are available on the Plantae portal. Read: […]
This guide for new UF faculty contains information on everything from hiring paperwork to housing, parking, preparing to teach, and what to expect in your first few weeks and months at the university. Read: Welcome to UF – Quick Guide for New Faculty
This document was created by the CLAS Faculty Council at UF, to address the need for improved resources for mentoring junior faculty in CLAS and at UF broadly. It contains not only the Council’s recommendations at the institutional and department levels, but also some links to mentoring resources already available at UF. Read: Best practices and recommendations […]