Now in its fifth year, the Graduate School will offer the Building Mentoring Capacities Workshop series. The Building Mentoring Capacities Workshop Series is a set of learning and development sessions for faculty, staff, and students to engage in conversations about mentoring in inclusive and equity-minded ways.

This year’s series will kick off with a keynote address on Wednesday, February 5, from nationally renowned mentoring scholars, Dr. Kimberly Griffin, Dean of the College of Education at the University of Maryland, and Dr. Brad Johnson, Professor Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. Their keynote will focus on creating a mentoring-rich educational culture at Ball State University and will conclude with a book signing of their newly released book, On Being a Mentor: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty. Those who register for the keynote event will receive a free copy of the book while supplies last.

 All Ball State University community members are welcome to attend the keynote address and workshops happening February 5-13 and full-time faculty (tenure and non-tenure line) also have the opportunity to participate in the Building Mentoring Capacities Incentive Program to receive up to $200 in funding.

Workshop facilitators include Dr. Buffy Smith, Dean of the Dougherty Family College at the University of St. Thomas, Dr. Rachel Wagner, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Clemson University, Dr. Bradley Dilger, Director of Writing at Purdue University, Dr. Reginald Blockett, Assistant Professor of Higher Education administration at Auburn University, and Dr. Quortne Hutchings, Assistant Professor of Counseling and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University. The facilitators will lead online and in-person workshops about mentoring students to foster belonging, how to navigate difficult conversations, teaching writing, and supporting queer and trans students.

Past Building Mentoring Capacities workshop attendees have called the workshops eye-opening, engaging, and informative. As one faculty member shared about Dr. TJ Stewart’s 2024 workshop, “What’s Past is Prologue: Reflexivity Toward Effective & Culturally Relevant Mentoring”, “Dr. Stewart provided an engaging discussion and presentation about how we can rethink mentoring from a one size fits all model that is individual based to a more distributed and shared model of mentoring. I was struck by this because it provided a way to rethink how we mentor. WE can and will fail at times but that is in the effort to finding ways that do work for our students.”

The Graduate School leadership hopes this year’s participants experience the same level of reflection and insight through this year’s workshops.

Register today for the Building Mentoring Capacities workshops to enhance your knowledge and skills related to mentoring and email gradschool@bsu.edu with questions.

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