Cal Poly is partnering with other CSU campuses, the CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) and select University of California campuses to offer the CSU PRE-Professor Program (PREPP). This program helps doctoral students learn what it is like to be a faculty member at a comprehensive CSU like ours. We are seeking applications from faculty across our campus to serve as CSU PREPP Faculty Mentors. We hope you will review the attached materials and see if joining the program as a mentor fits with your expertise, interest, and time. If so, we encourage you to apply. We will need one mentor for 2023-24 but may expand the program in future years.
PREPP Program:
The program is a quarterlong experience for CDIP and select UC doctoral students to participate as CSU PREPP Fellows, where they are paired with a CSU Faculty Mentor. Fellows will receive individual mentorship from an experienced CSU Faculty Mentor in two broad categories: Instruction and Understanding the Campus Culture and Service. This program aligns well with our campus goals to recruit highly qualified candidates (especially those from underrepresented backgrounds) for our faculty positions by helping Fellows understand what it means to work at a CSU.
Mentor Qualifications:
This call is open to all tenured faculty across the campus. Faculty Mentors need to have a strong record of accomplishments in instruction; strong interpersonal skills; and broad knowledge of department, college, and university level infrastructure. See attachment (Mentor Instructions and Application) that specifies both required and desired CSU PREPP Mentor qualities.
Timeline and Expectations:
- Fall 2023: Selection of both Mentors and Fellows.
- Winter 2024: CSU PREPP Mentor will work alongside our Cal Poly CSU PREPP Liaison, Dr. Julie Bettergarcia, and the other CSU campus faculty mentors to learn about the program and its activities, start to build the infrastructure to replicate it on our campus and convert the semester curriculum to align with our quarter timeline.
- Spring 2024: Mentor will work with up to three CSU PREPP Fellows. The majority of the PREPP Mentor and Fellow work will take place online, but the Fellow will also receive funding for a campus visit. The Mentor will be expected to make the connections for the individual Fellows to appropriate faculty for teaching experiences, research/lab meetings, shared governance bodies, department chairs, etc. Note that the Fellows will likely be in fields other than the selected PREPP Mentor’s.
Compensation:
The selected mentor will receive a total of 8 WTUs for AY 2023-24 to complete both the mentor preparation work (winter ’24) and fellow mentorship (spring ’24). Course releases must be used in this academic year (AY 23-24).
Application Components:
- Chair Acknowledgment Form
- Cover Letter
- CV (abbreviated; no more than five pages)
Send all applications materials to Campus Liaison Dr. Julie Bettergarcia (jgarci31@calpoly.edu) by 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 28. If you have questions, contact Dr. Julie A. Bettergarcia.
