Introduction

  • This election is for Special Election for Faculty Mentoring Committee College of Arts and Science Representative. The rules for this election are listed below.
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The nominees for Special Election for Faculty Mentoring Committee College of Arts and Science Representative are:

Frank J. Hoffman
Margarete J. Landwehr
Jeffrey Sommers

Nominations close Mar 19, 2009.
All Regular Faculty may be nominated.

Rules for the Election


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Frank J. Hoffman


Department: Philosophy

Mentoring newer faculty is both a duty of senior faculty members and potentially a learning experience for both parties. In my civic club I continue to serve as a mentor to new members, because I enjoy meeting people from diverse occupations and orienting them to our shared goals of civic betterment. I enjoy taking my students to conferences to present their academic work, and have received university recognition for mentoring students into the process of research. In my view, the faculty mentoring committee is an appropriate extension of my previous and continuing mentoring work. So I would very much like to have the opportunity of mentoring WCU faculty members, and would do my best to be informative, cheerful, and encouraging to anyone under my advisement.


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Margarete J. Landwehr


Department: Foreign Languages

I am presently mentoring Kuhio Walters in the English Dept. and have enjoyed my role as a mentor and have found it to be my most rewarding, non-teaching role at WCU. It is very satisfying to be able to share my accumulated experience at WCU with Dr. Walters and also to learn about new trends in the profession and perceptions of WCU from a new faculty member. Because this has been a mutually beneficial and intellectually stimulating experience, I am interested in becoming further involved in such a worthwhile program. I've learned that sharing teaching tips or ways of solving personal dilemmas with students or colleagues is just as important (if not more important)as reviewing the requirements for tenure and promotion. If chosen for the committee, I would like to think of more ways to promote this program by encouraging more faculty, incoming and established, to participate.


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Jeffrey Sommers


Department: English

As I complete my first year at WCU, I can only say positive things about the Faculty Mentoring program, based on my experience with my mentor. I would like to serve on the Faculty Mentoring Committee in order to provide my perspective as a new faculty member and program participant. I also bring to the table my experiences at my previous institution, Miami University (Ohio), as a mentee, a mentor, and co-director of my campus mentoring program. My own career has benefited from the mentors, both official and unofficial, with whom I have worked, and I have always tried to "pay back" that assistance by helping those who joined the faculty after me. I would like to continue to do so by becoming a member of the Faculty Mentoring Committee here at West Chester.


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