Mentoring Alliance Program

CALL FOR NEW FACULTY MENTORS FOR FALL 2026!

Become a new faculty mentor!

The Mentoring Alliance Program (MAP) is looking for two tenured professors to serve as mentors to this year’s new tenure track cohort.

The mission of MAP is to facilitate a campus-wide culture of mentorship among Colorado College faculty in order to create a community of belonging, support self-determination over career paths, and build the competencies necessary for each faculty member to achieve professional success and psychosocial well-being across all career stages. Our new faculty bring ideas, experiences, and passion to CC, and mentors have the opportunity to support these amazing new folks as they transition into their CC careers.

Each mentor will work closely with 4 to 5 new faculty from across divisions, orienting them to CC, helping to build community, and creating space for them to share their ideas and concerns and to learn from each other.

In exchange for compensation of $2750 per year, mentors must commit to:

• Mentoring your group for three years, through their Third Year Review
• Year One
  • Attend a half-day mentor training and meeting with your mentees the week before Block 1 (date TBD)
  • Hold a one to two-hour gathering with your mentees every block. MAP will provide some suggestions and guidelines for each meeting, but the overarching goal is community building and creating space for mentee-led discussion, questions, and reflection. A budget will be provided for lunch or snacks for these gatherings.
  • Attend a Crown workshop with all new faculty on the 2^nd Friday of each block.
  • Twice a semester, attend a meeting to touch base with the Mentoring Alliance Program Faculty Fellow and/or other mentors.
• Years Two and Three
  • Attend a half day mentor training the week before Block 1
  • Hold a one to two-hour gathering with your mentees every other block (twice a semester).
  • Meet with each mentee individually at least once a semester
  • Attend two Crown workshops a semester
  • Twice a semester, attend a meeting to touch base with the Mentoring Alliance Program Faculty Fellow and/or other mentors.

If you are interested in being a mentor, please send an e-mail explaining your interest in the position and why you think you would be a good mentor to MAP Faculty Fellow Corina McKendry at cmckendry@coloradocollege.edu by Friday, May 8. Thank you for your interest in helping our new faculty flourish at CC!

Thank you for your interest in supporting pre-tenure faculty through individualized mentorship!

Beginning in AY 2026-27, the Mentoring Alliance Program, which for the past six years has supported pre-tenure faculty through group mentoring, is working to complement this through encouraging individualized mentoring relationships between early career faculty and more experienced colleagues.

The vision is that in conversation with their group MAP mentors, tenure track faculty in their second and third years will, based on their goals, identify someone on campus who could provide valuable insight into moving towards those goals. If someone has reached out to you, congratulations!! They see you as an inspiration on campus who can support them in moving into the next steps of their career!

If you agree to be a mentor (and we hope you do!), there is both a small stipend of $250 and expectations of the relationship. The expectations are that you will:

• Meet with your mentee 2 to 3 times per semester (a minimum of four meetings over the year)
• Work together set goals for what you hope to get out of the mentoring relationship
• At the end of the year, discuss if you have achieved those goals and (for second year faculty) who might be a good mentor for the following year.

For the mentoring meetings, if you prefer to meet over coffee or lunch, MAP will reimburse up to $40 per meeting ($20 per person per meeting). Please requisition your receipts from your research account then, at the end of each semester, send the receipts to MAP Faculty Fellow Corina McKendry for a reimbursement back to your account. (We’re just doing one transfer per semester since that is easier on the administrative staff!)

Our hope is to support newer faculty in building a robust mentoring network and to grow a culture of faculty to faculty mentoring among all of us. Thank you for your support of this budding endeavor!