Mentoring Resources for Faculty

IDP Tools to Use with Students

• AAAS Individual Development Plan Information
• APA IDP Tool
• Imagine PhD
• American Chemical Society Career Planning Guide

Examples of IDPs at Purdue

• College of Science
• College of Pharmacy
• College of Engineering

Citations for further Reading on IDPs

Thompson, H. J., Santacroce, S. J., Pickler, R. H., Allen, J. K., Armer, J. M., Bakken, S., ... & Weiss, S. J. (2020). Use of individual development plans for nurse scientist training. Nursing outlook, 68(3), 284-292.

Chang, C. N., Patterson, C. A., Vanderford, N. L., & Evans, T. M. (2021). Modeling individual development plans, mentoring support, and career preparedness relationships among Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) trainees in the life sciences. F1000Research, 10.

Vanderford, N. L., Evans, T. M., Weiss, L. T., Bira, L., & Beltran-Gastelum, J. (2018). Use and effectiveness of the individual development plan among postdoctoral researchers: Findings from a cross-sectional study. F1000Research, 7.

Mentoring and Advising Statements

• Writing a Mentoring Philosophy/Statement
• Chronical of Higher Education Advising Statements

Mentoring and Advising Statements

• ASU Creating a Mentoring Agreement

Templates for Mentoring Contracts

• UC Davis Template
• University Of Nebraska Template
• University of Wisconsin Example

• Mentor Competency Assessment (Mentor)
• Mentor Competency Assessment (Mentee)

Further reading on Assessing Mentoring

Fleming, M. , House, S. , Hanson, V. S. , Yu, L. , Garbutt, J. , McGee, R. , Kroenke, K. , Abedin, Z. & Rubio, D. M. (2013). The Mentoring Competency Assessment. Academic Medicine, 88 (7), 1002-1008. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318295e298.

Hyun, S., Rogers, J., House, S., Sorkness, C., & Pfund, C. (2022). Revalidation of the Mentoring Competency Assessment to evaluate skills of research mentors: The MCA-21. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 6(1), E46. doi:10.1017/cts.2022.381