About
Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring (FAIM) Resource Center is an equity-based 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.
![Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring (FAIM): FAIM Wrap Around Mentoring Model Structure Overseeing Units Cornell Graduate School The Cornell Graduate School offers: • Support for graduate students • Development of faculty (across the ranks) as mentors to graduate students – with a priority focus on early career faculty Provost's Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD) OFDD offers: • Support for faculty throughout their career stages • Mid and senior career faculty development as mentors to earlier career faculty Mentoring Groups Graduate Student Early career faculty offer: • Inclusive and equity-minded mentoring for graduate students Early Career Faculty Mid- to Advanced-Career Faculty Mid- to advanced-career faculty offer: • Inclusive and equity-minded mentoring for early to mid-career faculty] • Mentoring for leadership opportunities • Inclusive and equity-minded mentoring for graduate students Interactions Between Units and Groups Unit-Down Approach • The Graduate School and Provost Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OCFDD) offer each other strategic coordination and wrap-around support • The Graduate School works primarily with graduate students and early-career faculty, but also provides support to mid- to advanced-career faculty • OCFDD primarily works with early-career faculty and mid- to advanced-career faculty • Mid- to advanced-career faculty work with primarily early-career faculty but also provide support to graduate students • Early-career faculty primarily work with graduate students Mentoring Group-Centric Approach • Graduate students are primarily supported by the Graduate School and early career faculty, who are also supported by the Graduate School • Early-career faculty are primarily supported by the Graduate School, OCFDD, and mid- to advanced-career faculty and provide support to graduate students • Mid- to advanced-career faculty are primarily supported by OCFDD but also by the Graduate School and provide primary support to early-career faculty but also to graduate students.](https://faculty-inclusive-mentoring.cornell.edu/files/2024/01/Collaboration_Wrap-Around-Graphic_1.25.2024-4f2cc388b856838f-e1714086145625.png)
FAIM is a collaboration of the Cornell Graduate School and Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and the TRUST Alliance, which includes collaborators at Cornell, Montana State, and Purdue Universities.
Phased Rollout
Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring Resource Center (FAIM) resources and learning opportunities are being released in phases.
Each phase of the FAIM framework prioritizes supporting faculty in their ongoing development as mentors and provides them with access to practical mentoring tools and resources.
Phase 1: Complete
This phase includes the launch of the FAIM core framework, philosophy, and principles via the FAIM website, FAIM introductory workshops, FAIM organizational consultations with selected academic units and leaders, and FAIM individual consultations with faculty.
Phase 1 also includes the release of practical tools and resources specific to mentoring in graduate education to support mentors and mentees in collaboratively establishing, communicating, and documenting mutual expectations within their mentoring relationships.
Phase 2: In Progress
This phase will include the release of additional FAIM practical tools, guides, and other resources specific to mentoring within graduate education.
Phase 2 will also include the expanded delivery of FAIM introductory workshops, and consultations with additional academic units throughout Cornell.
This phase will include the release of resources specific to mentoring within the professoriate to support faculty to faculty mentoring relationships.
Future Phases
Future phases will include the launch of a pilot mentor development immersion program for early career faculty with a focus on mentoring within graduate education.
Future phases will also include the launch of new workshops for faculty across the ranks focused on mentoring within graduate education and the professoriate.
Additionally, future phases will include the release of more tools, resources, and workshops specific to mentoring within the professoriate.
In alignment with our commitment to ongoing improvement, every phase will include formative assessment activities to support the refinement of existing FAIM workshops, resources, and other materials.