{"id":3561,"date":"2019-09-01T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/?page_id=3561"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:25:39","slug":"benefits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/main\/faculty-development-for-student-success\/mentoring\/benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[one_half]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3771\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/files\/2019\/09\/benefits-icon-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/files\/2019\/09\/benefits-icon-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/files\/2019\/09\/benefits-icon-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/files\/2019\/09\/benefits-icon.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[\/one_half]<\/p>\n<p>[one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px\">Both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/junior-faculty\/\">early career<\/a> who are the focus of the program and the more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/mentor-faculty\/\">senior faculty<\/a> who serve as mentors benefit from participation in the FDSS program. Benefits include (but are not limited to) the following:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/one_half_last]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>For early-career faculty prot\u00e9g\u00e9s\u2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Completion of a 3-year Career Development Plan to ensure that junior faculty surpass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/tenure-promotion\/\">promotion and tenure requirements<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Higher levels of research productivity through clear goal setting and support for access to release time and other resources<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/teaching-learning\/\">Improved teaching effectiveness<\/a> and an emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and learning<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Expanded networking and professional socialization opportunities on campus and support for networking within the discipline<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/scholars\/scholarswrite\/\">Establishment of peer-support<\/a> groups to encourage writing productivity<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Increased job satisfaction and a sense of belonging at JSU<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Access to advice on the culture of JSU, finding work\/life balance, successful grant proposal writing, finding support for innovative research and teaching at JSU, promotion and tenure expectations, and much more!<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>For senior faculty mentors\u2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Personal sense of satisfaction from sharing wisdom and experience with younger colleagues<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Ability to influence another generation of faculty, often leaving their mark on the next generation of faculty<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Cross-fertilization of ideas, both from junior faculty in the mentor\u2019s discipline and from junior faculty outside the mentor\u2019s discipline<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Professional rejuvenation through a focus on generating research agendas and improving teaching<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">New skills through participation in workshops and training with the junior faculty<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Increased research productivity by finding junior faculty collaborators<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\">Addition of a highly productive colleague to one\u2019s academic unit or professional network<\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[one_half] [\/one_half] [one_half_last] &nbsp; &nbsp; Both the early career who are the focus of the program and the more senior faculty who serve as mentors benefit from participation in the FDSS program. 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