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Ask Sciencewomen: What sort of mentoring to do first year faculty need?

User Image sciencewoman | July 21, 2009
Time to move hairy Ethan off the top of the page. Fortunately, there's a couple of great questions from readers qued up in my email account. And maybe by the time they get posted, I'll be ready to get back to my course design series. First up, loyal commenter GymLabRab wonders how to mentor a new colleague. GLR writes: Hi ScienceWoman, Thanks for your blog! I just became department chair on July 1. Too bad it means more work but no more pay! I'm wondering...what makes a good department chair? It seems from your conversation about your review, your chair is fairly hands-off and doesn't do…