The purpose of the College Mentoring Program is to create a link between new and junior faculty and respected, tenured faculty. It is anticipated that the mentored faculty will experience higher levels of job satisfaction, better teaching, greater scholarly productivity and a stronger likelihood of remaining at the University of Southern Indiana than non-mentored faculty. Additionally, faculty mentors should gain considerable personal and professional satisfaction from involvement in such a program. The program’s success will depend on the new faculty members, their mentors and their department chairs all taking an active role in the mentoring process.
