Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence

Faculty Mentorship

Faculty mentorship is an essential part of the faculty role at Tennessee Tech. Mentorship provides support for faculty as they navigate their careers as tenure-track faculty, improve their classroom management, and increase their research and publications. Below you will find the mentorship opportunities and resources across campus sorted into needs-based areas. If you have a mentorship need you do not feel is currently being met by one of the exisitng offerings, please contact cafe@tntech.edu. 

Mentorship Communities

• Qualitative Community of Practice

  Are you interested in qualitative research? You can join the Qualitative Community of Practice. The Qualitative Research Community of Practice (QCoP) is designed to be an interdisciplinary group of Tennessee Tech faculty who are interested researchers, scholars, and practitioners focused on qualitative research methods. The group will meet three times this semester to share ideas, build networks, and develop qualitative research skills. Register below to join this new learning community and become a part of an active collaboration of qualitative research faculty. View this semester's meeting times and register on the CAFÉ events page under "Professional Development."

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Interested in Being a Mentor? 

Mentoring is beneficial not only for the mentee, but also the mentor. At Tennessee Tech, faculty are encouraged to actively participate in the professional development of both themselves, and their colleages. If you would like to learn more about being a mentor, please complete the interest form below. 

Interest Form