To all CUL staff:
Are you looking for an opportunity to help your colleagues make the most of their careers? Are you interested in playing a role in welcoming newly hired staff and helping them stay informed? How about providing opportunities to connect staff-both librarians in the promotion process and non-academic staff interested in exploring career options-with experienced staff to guide them? Well, you're in luck! The Career Development Committee is seeking volunteers to serve on the newly-revamped Mentoring Committee.
The mission of the CUL mentorship committee is to facilitate and support the development of mentorship opportunities for all interested staff members.
The committee will be responsible for:
* Recruiting mentors
* Matching mentors and mentees for both academic and non-academic staff, based on individual needs and interests
* Support mentoring relationships to ensure mutual benefit
* Scheduling networking and learning events and
* Conducting an annual assessment of overall program and review of the charge
Members shall serve for 1 or 2 year terms. The Mentoring Committee is being re-created as a subcommittee of the Career Development Committee with a new charge that includes all staff. Because of this new charge, we anticipate that the first few months will involve a fair amount of structuring and organizing.
If this sounds like a good fit for you, please send an email stating your interest in serving on the committee by 05/31 to Boaz Nadav-Manes (btn3@cornell.edu)
Thank you,
Career Development Committee
Boaz Nadav-Manes, (chair), btn3, 5-5762
Eisha Prather, (co-chair), elp48, 5-3530
Eveline Ferretti, ef15, 4-4993
Pete Magnus, pam62, 5-4436
Leah Solla, lrm1, 5-1361
Neely Tang, nt243, 5-9241
Lynn Thitchener, lmk7, 5-4985
Carla DeMello, (Library Forum Steering Committee liaison), cd58, 4-7286
Linda Bryan,(ex officio) lgb4, 5-8587
The Career Development Committee shall promote and provide continuing education and career development programming for all interested staff of Cornell University Library. Programming efforts should be diverse, targeting both general and more specialized audiences.
3 Comments
Neely J. Tang
Hi All,
Is the time commitment really only 2 hours? That's a bit surprising...maybe averaged out over the year, but I think it's fair to say that it might be more this first year and the I doubt it will be spread out over the year. I would imagine that this group is going to have to spend some time this summer to figure things out for the Fall.
For committee size, I thought that LFSC and CDC wanted an odd number of folks to break any ties, so could we have a minimum of 3 folks if that is still the case?
What's our deadline for receiving nominations?
I've also made two word changes to the points below. Mentee to mentees (plural) and changed Monitor to Support.
Just my thoughts,
Neely
Lynn M. Thitchener
Nice start! I especially like that you placed an asterisk after bullet point 2 and added additional information to clarify just what we hope to offer.
That said, could we tone down the first paragraph a bit? Perhaps, "The mission of the CUL mentorship committee is to facilitate and support the development of mentorship opportunities for all interested staff members."
I know it's bland, but it's just an opening sentence. The rest of the email lays it out more concretely as far as the specifics of the mission.
I can see why we would want to add a sentence about how/why this is important, but maybe we should be a little more specific about why we think so. I'll keep thinking about that. Maybe something like ..."mentorship pairings are a critical tool for professional and career development..."
Lynn M. Thitchener
Check out this link: http://www.mentors.ca/mentorrationale.html
This is one of many on the Peer Resources site http://www.peer.ca/ referenced in Angela Horne's and Michael Cook's bibliography from their mentorship presentation.