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UCW Faculty Mentoring Discussion Panel Featured by The Daily Cougar.

The University Commission on Women held a discussion panel on mentoring junior faculty at UH. The event focused on the methods and organization of successful department-implemented mentoring programs throughout campus.

The event was featured by the Daily Cougar in an article titled "Panel advises junior faculty", HHP faculty Dr. Lisa Alastuey who is co-chair of the UCW was quoted in the article.

Below is an excerpt from the article:

“The UCW realizes that there is real concern among junior faculty that there is no formalized University-wide mentoring program,” said Faculty Co-Chair of the UCW Lisa Alastuey.

Volunteers from departments with mentoring programs discussed how their programs were organized to ensure that their junior faculty will succeed in the years to come.

Vera Hutchinson, the department chair of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education, said that when she first became an administrator she found several assistant professors were struggling to identify their support structure.

Read the entire article on the Daily Cougar website