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Fall 2025
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Mentoring Pods
The Butler Center continues to support faculty success and development through a variety of mentoring community programs. The Mentoring Pods program offers connection and community across campus and across career stages for mutual encouragement and support. Key activities of this program include meeting with those in one’s mentoring pod on a regular basis, mentoring community gatherings hosted by the Butler Center, and larger campus-wide events focused on celebrating and/or developing faculty mentorship and leadership. The Mentoring Pods program is not intended to replicate nor substitute mentoring resources available within each faculty’s own unit (which tend to be focused on P&T, grants, and other indicators of professional advancement that are discipline-specific). Instead, this program offers mentoring support on individual and relational thriving in a broader sense, to develop a greater sense of belonging at Purdue. The application period to join the next cycle of pods is expected to open early in the 2026 fall semester.Parenting Network for Faculty
The Parenting Network for Faculty is dedicated to helping academics navigate the transition to parenthood. The network aims to provide resources for navigating childcare, university leave policies, and managing the pressures of life-work balance, and more. The goal is to build an informational network and supportive community for faculty who are parents and/or expectant parents.Mentoring and Coaching Academy
Launched at the beginning of 2026 spring semester, the Mentoring and Coaching Academy offers a cohort-based experience for full professors seeking to advance their mentoring and coaching skills. Through nine in-person workshops across the academic year, participants gain practical tools, connect with peers, and learn from campus and external experts. The application period to join the next cohort is expected to open late in the 2026 fall semester.
2025 Leadership and Coaching Workshop Series
JANUARY 2025The CON Artist’s Guide to Effective Listening with Dr. Shonna Waters FEBRUARY 2025
Conversation with an Expert: Managing Emotional Labor with Dr. Alicia Grandey
APRIL 2025
Giving and Receiving Help with Drs. Silvia Bonaccio, Jennifer Dobbs-Oates, and Louis Tay MAY 2025
The Power of Storytelling with Dawn Ziegerer