Research Guides: UO Mentorship Reimagined: Start

What is Mentoring?

The UO is reimagining mentorship. Instead of limiting mentorship to a single, formal, or assigned mentor, typically senior to the mentee, we are shifting to a network-based approach in which you have the agency to build your mentorship network with a variety of relationships and interactions. Some will be formal, but most are informal. Some may be long-term relationships, but most are short-term interactions. Your mentorship network could include advisors, sponsors, coaches, role models, supervisors and peers. Everyone at UO deserves a mentorship network, including undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff.

Office of the Provost - University of Oregon

Mentoring at the University of Oregon

Faculty Resources

UO New Faculty Success Program
The UO New Faculty Success Program offers the opportunity to build relationships with others joining the university and get your questions answered.
External Mentor Program
The External Mentor Program supports the work of faculty who are early career and underrepresented on campus and those whose research or creative activity focuses on diversity-related issues.
Peer Mentorship Program
The Office of the Provost offers four programs to support faculty at transitional moments in their career - New Faculty, Associate Professors, Promoted Career Faculty, and New Leaders. These programs provided tangible knowledge and support, and assist faculty in developing the needed mentorship networks. These programs are designed to complement local programs in the department, division, school or college.

Student Resources

Intercultural Mentoring Program Advancing Community Ties (IMPACT)
IMPACT is a peer-to-peer mentoring program for students of color and first-generation college students. IMPACT student coordinators support first-year and transfer students, offering the opportunity to be part of a community that is comfortable, accepting, and truly yours.
Academic Advising PeerLink
PeerLink Advisors provide UO students with academic advising and mentorship, connecting them with campus resources, helping identify academic or co-curricular opportunities, and serving as a comfortable and continuous point of contact
Peer Advisors for Veterans Education (PAVE)
PAVE is a peer support program connecting incoming student veterans with those already on campus. Mentors can help with navigating college life, identify challenges they are facing, refer them to resources on or off campus, and provide ongoing support to their academic and personal ventures.