This intensive workshop focuses on helping you develop as a mentor of graduate students. By stipulating our expectations as mentors and communicating clearly, we can avoid many problems that impede students' progress. Successful mentoring relationships help both faculty and students optimize use of time and fiscal resources and advance collective goals. Activities and discussions at this workshop will focus on skills that faculty need to help more kinds of students progress through graduate milestones and succeed in research. We will also focus on tools and strategies to help faculty manage the workload of mentoring.

• What you do when you mentor?
• Mentoring in different disciplines: common principles and practices, in and out of the lab
• How to develop and enhance positive mentoring relationships: maintaining good communication with mentees
• Mentoring across difference
• Keeping students on track
• Guiding mentees to be full partners in their development
• What is a mentoring philosophy?: understanding your own style

Trying to figure out how to stay sane, balanced and get everything done that needs doing at school and home during the break???!! Need a breather??

Please note: dates for the Winter semester will be provided in December.

Are you an early career faculty member? You are invited to a new opportunity to join small group mentoring with experienced faculty, dedicated to supporting you in your teaching as you balance research, and service expectations. Two mentors with different experience and background will meet with a group of 6-8 early career faculty, to enable multiple small mentoring groups. The groups will meet for one academic year, and will work together to shape the meetings on topics and themes relevant to thriving at the University of Windsor in teaching as you balance research, service, work-life balance, and more!

Trying to figure out how to stay sane, balanced and get everything done that needs doing at school and home during the break?! Need a breather?

This session will address practical topics and questions identified by you and your colleagues, provide resources to help you out over the break, as well as some helpful techniques for relaxing. Drop in and join other early career faculty for convivial chat. We will end the session a short, educational “end-of-semester relaxation” session with techniques to help you cope with seasonal stress in exams, in the office or grading at home!!

In preparation, please let us know any areas that you would find it helpful to have a discussion about skills, challenges and resources that would help you in your career right now! (Email questions to Erika Kustra, kustraed@uwindsor.ca or to Hannah Sands hannah.sands@uwindsor.ca)

Feeling stressed out? Overwhelmed? In need of more help and support with grading, course prep and end-of-term burnout?

You are cordially invited to at one-hour, in-person workshop and social, The goal of this session is to mark the end of the semester and help help faculty members with the transition into the next one, exploring self-care techniques and celebrating our resilience, and ability to survive and thrive at the end of a challenging term!