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CETLA Launches
Faculty Mentoring Program
Faculty mentors join CETLA Director Teresa Redd
(center) and Business School Academic Dean Samuel
Paschall (center) in the iLab to launch the FRieND
program.
(L-R) Michael Frazier, Dominicus So,
Virginia Brown,Fang Wu,Laverne Brown,Kay Payne,Paul
Hudrlik,Subodh Kulkarni,Sam Paschall(Business School
Academic Dean),Teresa Redd (Director, CETLA),Marguerite
Neita,Marilyn Irving,Raymond Smith,Barbara Hines,Silvia
Martinez,Anita Nahal,John Tharakan,Folahan
Ayorinde,Wilfred
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At a reception on Sept. 13, 2007,
Howard University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching,
Learning, and Assessment (CETLA) launched The “FRieND”
Program, a mentoring program that will enable award-winning
teachers to mentor colleagues.
Via the password-protected Faculty
Resource Network Database (FRND), faculty who are referred to
CETLA will be matched with mentors who are strong in the areas
where the referred faculty seek guidance. CETLA has already
recruited more than 30 mentors from the ranks of faculty who
have earned teaching awards or outstanding teaching
evaluations from their departments. Once they are matched,
mentors and mentees will interact throughout a semester,
visiting one another’s classes, sharing syllabi, reviewing one
another’s graded exams or papers, discussing pedagogical books
or videos, or simply chatting about the mentee’s teaching
challenges over lunch. The mentor-mentee relationships will
remain strictly confidential.
To free-up time for mentoring,
CETLA has invited mentors to earn time-saving student services
through a system called Time-Banking (© Edgar S. Cahn, 1987).
For instance, in exchange for one hour of mentoring, a mentor
will earn an hour of clerical, research or technology services
from CETLA’s student employees — services such as scanning
documents, posting materials online, searching the Web for
multimedia resources, conducting research and more.
“CETLA
invited the School of Business to pilot the FRieND Program
because the school had demonstrated a strong commitment to
improving teaching by referring several faculty members to
CETLA for assistance,” said Teresa Redd, director of CETLA.
“CETLA and the School of Business expect the program to
significantly increase the teaching effectiveness of faculty
who are referred to CETLA. At the same time, by linking
faculty mentors with referred faculty, the FRieND Program will
build a learning community of peers dedicated to improving one
another’s teaching.”
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