~ September 5, 2024 ~

Cornell’s Faculty Advancing Inclusive Mentoring (FAIM) team is putting tools in the hands of faculty and graduate students to help them create better mentoring relationships. Recent updates to National Science Foundation (NSF) guidelines require more comprehensive mentoring and individual development plans (IDPs) for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, and the Cornell FAIM leadership team is stepping up to this challenge by providing faculty with the necessary training materials and resources they need.

The FAIM framework and resource center is part of the institutionalization of Cornell’s engagement in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded Equity in Graduate Education (EGE) Consortium launched nationally in 2022 and led by Julie Posselt at the University of Southern California. The EGE Consortium brings together change-ready universities, graduate programs, and academic leaders to align policies and practices with commitments to equity-based systemic change in graduate education.

Read full text about Empowering Better Mentoring Relationships: A Cornell Initiative by Katya Hrichak on the Graduate School website.