Mentorship
At the Butler Center, we are committed to providing inclusive mentorship resources and creating opportunities for faculty to connect and uplift one another.
This page offers inclusive mentoring resources.
Butler Center Mentoring Triads Program
The Butler Center is offering an updated mentoring program (called “Mentoring Triads”) that will replace 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 colleagues); 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.
Effective Leadership, Coaching, and Mentoring Resources
Faculty, staff, and graduate students are asking:
- What is inclusive mentoring, and why is it important?
- What does it look like?
- How can I be a good mentor for those from different backgrounds?
In response to these intentional and thoughtful questions, the Butler Center has gathered resources and input from experts on inclusive mentoring.
Butler Center Events and Resources
April 2023 Lunch & Learn on Inclusive Mentoring
- Program
- Inclusive Mentoring Handout from CILMAR (Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research)
- Key Takeaways
October 2024 Faculty Mentoring Workshop
Spring 2025 Leadership and Coaching Workshop Series
- JANUARY 2025
The 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
Other Campus Resources
Purdue Department of Psychological Sciences Relationships and Work Lab Inclusive Mentoring Website
Mentoring Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars (OGSPS) Website