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Cornell University

Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring

A Collaboration of the Graduate School and the Provost's Office of Faculty Development & Diversity

About

Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring (FAIM) Resource Center is a systemic change initiative that provides a framework for inclusive mentorship applicable across graduate education and the professoriate. Bolstering this framework are resources and tools intended to be adapted and adopted to meet the contextual needs of mentors and mentees.

“Inclusive mentorship is a co–constructed and reciprocal relationship between a mentor and mentee who take a strengths–based and identity–informed approach to working together to support their mutual growth, development, and success (NASEM, 2017; Windchief, 2019).”

– FAIM definition of inclusive mentorship

Collaborators

FAIM is a part of a wrap-around model of support for faculty at Cornell University.

This graphic is a visualization of the strategic coordination on wrap-around support for scholars across rank in the academy with a focus on (especially early career) faculty and graduate students / postdoctoral scholars in their development as mentors and mentees.At the center are early career faculty. They are supported by later career faculty mentors and are also mentors to graduate students and postdoctoral scholar mentees.

FAIM is a collaboration of the Cornell Graduate School and Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and is informed by the work external partners including the Equity in Graduate Education Consortium and Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Program.