Mentoring Triads

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The Butler Center is offering an updated mentoring program (called “Mentoring Triads”) that has replaced the “Coaching & Resource Network (CRN)” program that started in Spring 2019 and concluded in Spring 2023. Instead of pairing assistant/associate professors with a full professor, this new structure will entail matching up an assistant professor with an associate professor and a full professor. The three individuals’ affiliations are to be with different departments (ideally with different colleges); as such, the program is intended to supplement and further support the existing mentoring programs run by individual units on campus (as well as those available outside of Purdue).
 
Within each triad, the assistant professor will be mentored by both the associate and the full professors; the associate professor will be mentoring the assistant professor while also being mentored by the full professor.
 
This new (pilot) program will run from early Spring 2024 through May 2025.

Who is it for?

All Purdue faculty, including tenure-track and non-tenure-track (e.g., clinical/professional professors; research professors) faculty, are eligible.

How does it work?

Each triad will commit to meeting together on a regular basis (e.g., twice a semester, once a month) as their schedules allow. In addition to the three-person meetings, the associate professor is encouraged to periodically check in with the assistant professor to have a one-on-one conversation, as well as the full professor with the associate and assistant professors separately. The goal here is for each individual to develop and establish a one-on-one connection with the other two in the triad, in addition to the triadic connection, over time.
 
To facilitate in-person interactions, the Butler Center will host a series of events that feature speed coaching and roundtable discussions on several key topics of interest (e.g., promotion & tenure; conflict management), which the Mentoring Triads program participants will be particularly encouraged to attend as a triad.
 
The program was launched in early Spring 2024 and will run through May 2025. To accommodate newly promoted associate professors and incoming assistant professors, we expanded the program by opening up a new application window during Summer 2024.

The Mentoring Triad program is currently full and not accepting applications. Interested participants can be added to a waitlist by emailing ButlerCenter@purdue.edu.

Full Professor Mentors

Dulcy Abraham | Chris Agnew | Ourania Andrisani | Elena Benedicto | Peter Bermel | Ximena Bernal | Carrie Berger | Brenda Capobianco | Clint Chapple | Yaobin Chin | Elena Coda | Candace Croney | Patti Darbishire | Janice Evans | Susanne Hambrusch | Birgit Kaufmann | Scott Lawrance | Chenell Loudermill | Linda Mason | Lisa Mauer | David Purpura | Jennifer Richardson | Kavita Shah | Jenn Simpson | Eugene Spafford | Irena Swanson | Louis Tay | Lynne Taylor | Bill Watson | Sunnie Lee Watson | Zach Weber | Ann Weil | Jen William | Christina Wilson-Frank