Investing in Our Faculty

These skill-building workshops provide strategies to help mentors create psychologically safe environments and help mitigate the potential impact that bias might have in a mentoring relationship. 

The ECARE program is designed to promote inclusive community, combat isolation, and mitigate against bias that can negatively shape the experiences of early career faculty who are underrepresented in academia and/or whose research focus is on racial equity and disparities.

Faculty Affinity Networks are faculty-led spaces for connection, support, career development, and advancement around unique and similar identity-based experiences.

The I-LEAD program is designed to nurture the next generation of diverse leaders by supporting a cohort of leaders across all career stages through workshops, coaching, and mentoring to combat isolation, build community, and manage the unique challenges that diverse faculty face.

The Mutual Mentoring program supports faculty at any career stage in developing robust mentorship networks, within and outside of Rutgers University, to combat isolation and ensure all faculty have the resources they need to thrive.

The OASIS Leadership and Professional Development program is designed to promote inclusive community, combat isolation and mitigate against bias, helping faculty develop the skills necessary to lead and advance in academia, with special attention to the unique challenges women faculty face as they navigate higher ranks and leadership in academia.

The PECE Workshop Series is designed to support Rutgers’ mission to retain and advance a diverse faculty through professional advancement workshops that enable scholars to develop their scholarly work and identity and build connections within the Rutgers Community.

The RCN is designed to advance a culture of mentoring and inclusion at Rutgers and increase the engagement and scholarly productivity of Rutgers faculty by providing the infrastructure, training, and facilitation to enable effective and collaborative mentoring partnerships beyond the departmental level.

The Rutgers Women in Leadership Workshop Series offers skill-building workshops for advancement in academia, paying attention to the unique challenges women faculty may face on their leadership journey. Faculty develop skills, confidence, and strategies to expand networks to reduce isolation, build community, and increase access to leadership opportunities. All faculty are welcome.