The intent is to provide mentoring for the more junior women faculty on campus to assist them in attaining their academic goals. WFRN has a series of documents to assist in making this relationship work. These include a description of the role of the mentor, questions for the mentee and mentor to discuss, a form for planning a time-table for attaining specific goals and other related documents. This is a report of the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center's Task Force on Mentoring. The report defines, explains, supports, and documents mentoring.
Some links are specifically for faculty in economics.
Mentoring happens in a variety of ways in many organisations. Sometimes it is an up- front, formalised process. Alternatively it can be very ad-hoc, and informal, and not even recognised as 'mentoring' by anyone involved. There are all shades of mentoring provision in between. These pages are mainly concerned with mentoring of teachers in higher education.