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Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring

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

Informing Research and Practice

Attribution to FAIM and Citations

The FAIM framework is defined by an inclusive and equity-minded mentoring philosophy and key principles to support faculty in their development and advancement of mentee-centered and equity-minded mentoring practices within graduate education and the professoriate. FAIM includes contextually relevant resources and tools specific to mentoring relationships respective to graduate education and the professoriate.

Citations

Web Content

Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring (2023, May). [Name of page]. Cornell University. Web address.

Documents and Tools

Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring (FAIM) (2023, May). [Document Title]. Cornell University. Web address.

Attribution Statement

For those that might adapt and adopt aspects of this framework and its associated resources, please provide attribution to the Cornell and TRUST Alliance FAIM initiative.


Attributions from FAIM to Others

The foundation of the FAIM framework is informed by recommendations from a Cornell faculty and graduate student working group that was convened to define mutual expectations within mentoring relationships. FAIM is also informed by the scholarship and practice of Drs. Julie Posselt, Kimberly GriffinAngela Byars-Winston, Melissa McDaniels, Damani White-Lewis, and Brian Burt, among others. FAIM offers new resources as well as reflects the intentional adaption and adoption of high-impact practices, and resources from other institutions and organizations such as the Indigenous Mentoring Program developed by the NSF AGEP PNW-COSMOS Alliance led by Dr. Sweeney Windchief at Montana State University.

FAIM also highlights existing mentoring resources and mentor development opportunities provided by the Equity in Graduate Education (EGE) Consortium, Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research (CIMER), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM, National Research Mentoring Network (NMRN), NCFDD, NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM Higher Education, NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education, American Council of Education (ACE), and the Association of American Universities (AAU).


Informing Literature and Tools

Peer-reviewed literature and evidence based practices inform the FAIM framework, practices, and tools. Intentionally reflected in the framework are the work and/or mentoring experiences of scholars with social identities historically underrepresented in academia.

Selected References

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