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Faith Integration Mentors

The Faith Integration Mentor Program is in its fourth year at APU. Funded through a grant from the office of the provost, the purpose of the mentor program is to support faculty in their efforts to develop and enhance faith integration in scholarship, teaching, and service. Mentors are nominated by the Faith Integration Task Force and the director of faith integration, and are appointed by the dean of each school.

New faculty are assigned to faith integration mentors who meet with each new faculty member for support and guidance in their integrative efforts. Mentors also host formal or informal lunches or gatherings to provide faculty a venue in which to have dialogue and collaboration. Faith integration mentors also provide guidance and assistance to faculty who are applying for extended contract or promotion.

The faith integration mentors for 2007-08 are:

Faith Integration Mentors — Roles and Responsibilities

Within their school:

  1. Serve as mentor to new faculty in the area of faith integration. (Meet at least once monthly for resource development, syllabi review, and lesson plan development.)
  2. Serve as a faith integration resource person to existing faculty. (Meet as needed for resource development, syllabi review, and lesson plan development.)
  3. Sponsor at least one activity each semester within assigned school/discipline to highlight faith integration (e.g., brown bag lunches, panels, forums, guest speakers, etc.).
  4. Serve as a consultant/mentor to the new Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation Program (CFEP) supporting school-specific faculty applicants (related to the paper they will be writing).
  5. Engage in personal scholarship in the faith integration area.
  6. Prepare a report by October 30 and February 15 outlining: mentee meetings, plan for personal faith scholarship, and plan for school/discipline activities. (See #3 above.)
  7. Help new faculty develop a reading list pertinent to each person’s area of discipline. This could also include facilitating the use of appropriate Bible and other reference software.
  8. Help facilitate the connection between new and disciplinary faculty with faculty that have completed faith integration course.

As a group:

  1. Meet monthly as peer scholars to support each other, share best practices, identify needs as mentors, and respond to the needs identified by the faculty.
  2. Support each other as teachers and scholars in the area of faith integration.
  3. Make recommendations to the Faith Integration Committee concerning the development of faith integration resources for the university.
  4. Attend the monthly faith integration discussion with their mentee.
  5. Sponsor a seminar series for selected faculty and invited guests in May on a topic or issue of faith integration chosen by mentor group.
  6. Work with the Faith Integration Committee in reviewing CFEP faith integration proposals as part of the rank and contract promotion system.
  7. Work on course revisions with faculty who have completed the faith integration courses sponsored by the Lily Vocation Grant.
  8. Occasionally review prospective monograph material for publication (models, lesson plans, worldview philosophy documents, etc.).
  9. Review and produce faith mentor-mentee guidelines for the coming year.
  10. Be responsible with the Faith Integration Committee in scheduling and programming a half-day orientation workshop in May for the following year’s set of faith mentors.
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