Supporting effective mentoring at every stage of the academic career
Mentoring Reimagined supports faculty at all ranks, graduate students, and postdocs in strengthening mentoring practices across the academic career. This work focuses on helping people enhance, innovate, and build on their skills, language, and confidence around mentorship, with the goal of making mentorship more intentional, sustainable, and responsive to the busy realities of academia.
Our goal is to help scholars across the academic arc contribute to a mentoring culture in which everyone sees themselves as both mentor and mentee, where guidance comes from a network of mentors rather than a single individual, and where people at all levels feel valued and supported in their professional and scholarly development. When mentoring improves, so does research, teaching, career satisfaction, and long-term retention, strengthening the academic community for all.
Faculty Leads
Mentoring Reimagined Faculty Leads bring extensive experience as mentors across different stages of the academic career. They play a central role in shaping program content, facilitating workshops and conversations, and help connect mentoring research on best practices to everyday academic practice.
Caitlin Rosenthal
Associate Dean of Social Sciences and Associate Professor, History
Damian Octavio Elias
Professor, Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management
Participating units
Mentoring Reimagined collaborates with departments, schools, colleges, and campus programs to support mentoring practices that are responsive to local needs and contexts. Rather than offering a static program, this work takes shape dynamically through collaboration within each unit, engaging their specific mentoring needs, priorities, and structures while supporting reflection and skill-building over time.
Participating units include:
We are actively looking to partner with additional units that would welcome a focused effort to build on existing mentoring strengths, learn new skills, and enhance mentoring practices that fit their local context.
Learn more about partnering with Mentoring Reimagined - coming soon!
About Us
Mentoring Reimagined is one of the ARCS Initiatives (Academic Recruitment, Career Success, and Advancement), a campus-wide set of efforts designed to strengthen academic advancement, recruitment, and career success at UC Berkeley. ARCS Initiatives focus on sustainable, systemic change by centering faculty as drivers of institution-wide impact and by identifying and addressing the structural barriers that shape research, teaching, service, and professional growth.
The program is housed in the Office for Faculty Equity & Welfare (OFEW) and is a collaboration with the Graduate Division, reflecting a shared commitment to supporting mentoring across the full academic arc from undergraduate students to senior faculty.
If you are interested in partnering with Mentoring Reimagined, please fill out the Interest Form (coming soon). If you have any other questions, please email Tessa Scott, ARCS Project Coordinator, at tessa_scott@berkeley.edu.