University Times

The University Senate’s fall plenary session, “Fostering Mentoring for Sustaining Organizational Vitality,” will be held 2-5 p.m. Oct. 19 in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room.

Jeannette South-Paul, chair of the School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine, will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include Patricia Beeson, vice provost for graduate and undergraduate studies; Cecil Blake, chair of Africana Studies, and John Weidman, professor of higher education management in the School of Education. Consuella Lewis, assistant professor of higher education management, will moderate the session.

A series of workshops on mentoring, led by Pitt faculty members and administrators, will be held throughout the academic year. Each workshop will be held in 4127 Sennott Square, noon-1:30 p.m.

• Oct. 24: “Graduate Student Mentoring: Student and Faculty Perspectives,” Consuella Lewis and doctoral students Corinne Gibson and Meghan Murphy of the education school’s higher education management program.

• Nov. 14: “How to Develop a Staff Mentoring/Coaching Program for Your Responsibility Center,” Jane Watkinson Thompson, associate vice chancellor, planning and analysis.

• Jan. 23: “Career Advancement and Mentoring,” Samuel D. Conte, University Registrar.

• Feb. 14: “An Example of an Ongoing Mentoring Relationship at Pitt,” Ellen Olshansky, professor in the School of Nursing, and Ellen Frank, professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine.

• March 28: “Planning Your Career at the University of Pittsburgh,” Sherry Miller Brown, director of the McCarl Center for Nontraditional Students.

• April 5: “Mentoring Students and Leaders,” Audrey Murrell, professor in the Katz Graduate School of Business, and two winners of the 2006 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring: Celia Brownell, professor of psychology, and Alan Sved, professor of neuroscience and co-director of the Center for Neuroscience.