URI Faculty Guides: Further Information

The URI Faculty Guides Program

Sharing Knowledge, Developing Networks, Building Community at URI

The Faculty Guides program is designed to provide quick, ready, and accessible information for URI faculty and faculty candidates. These programs offer all faculty, in particular early-career faculty and underrepresented faculty, ready resources for specific topics from those knowledgeable in that topic.

Teams are composed of senior faculty and staff with expertise about specific topics. Guides are available by phone, email, or in person to offer short-term, expeditious assistance to faculty who have specific questions on that particular topic. Guides may refer faculty to the additional assistance of a mentor, chair, or some other resource, if the issue is complicated.

What a Faculty Guide is NOT.

Faculty guides are available to offer opinions and advice, based on their knowledge and expertise. They are not expected to provide definitive answers, but to supplement what is available from institutional resources. Guides are not expected to replace a faculty mentor, but to offer supplemental, topic-specific assistance.

Confidentiality

In some situations, sensitive topics may be discussed. While we cannot absolutely guarantee confidentiality, it is emphasized and required of all Faculty Guides.  So we can track what is of most interest to our faculty community, general information about all interactions will be recorded using the online contact form, without identifying information.  Any reporting of the Faculty Guides program will be in aggregate form by broad theme only, without particulars of individual interactions, and without possibility of individual identification.

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