The Duke Faculty Mentoring Commons is a virtual gathering place for faculty mentors to share with one another — and with the campus community — the diversity, vibrancy and power of impactful mentoring relationships at Duke.
Mentoring is critical to academic and career success, especially for academics from under-represented backgrounds. Mentoring can also be messy and frustrating, and too often practiced in isolation.
On this site, we invite faculty mentors to join an ongoing conversation about mentoring, both to affirm individual mentoring practices and also to further the “common good”: a cross-university culture that celebrates and supports the impactful mentoring of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and junior faculty.
We invite faculty to share their insights and promising practices in mentoring with the larger Duke community.
If you’re in a place where you have more questions on mentoring than answers (we’ve all been there), we also welcome you to submit a “burning question” on mentoring. We will treat all questions as confidential, and Maria Wisdom will respond to you directly and privately. She may — with your permission — also connect you to other people or resources who can provide perspectives and support.