Faculty Mentoring Resources

At NYU Langone, we provide resources to help mentees, mentors, mentoring champions, and department chairs understand their responsibilities for attaining mentoring milestones.

Mentoring Guides

The following guides help mentors and chairs create and maintain faculty mentoring programs.

Faculty Mentoring Handbook

Guide for Faculty Mentoring

Mentoring Guide for Department Chairs

Annual Mentor Letters

Each year, the mentoring team provides each junior faculty mentee with a written summary letter that is also sent to the department chair. Though it catalogs accomplishments, it is more than a progress report; it also includes an overview of agreed-upon career goals, challenges and deadlines honored and missed, and goals for the upcoming year.

The report may also include an assessment of the suitability of the faculty member’s current academic track and whether a track change should be considered. It assesses progress toward promotion or tenure and offers a potential timeline for attaining these goals. The department chair and the appointments and promotion committee use these reports in their third- and sixth-year review of tenure-eligible faculty.

At their annual faculty meeting, chairs or their designees discuss the mentors’ assessment with the faculty mentee. The chair indicates her or his level of agreement with the letter, and then the chair and mentee sign the annual report, which is kept on file in the Office of Faculty Records.