The document advertises an online mentoring network called the ADVANCE Regional Network E-Mentoring Network. It is open to junior female STEM faculty seeking mentors and senior STEM faculty, both female and male, seeking to serve as mentors. Participants create profiles to be matched with a mentor or mentee. They then communicate weekly on discussion topics designed to support the mentee's career advancement through email, Skype, phone or text. The mentoring network aims to promote promotion, retention and a healthy climate for STEM faculty and is hosted through a secure online platform designed for mentoring.

1. ADVANCE Regional Network
UH STEM Faculty...You are invited to participate in the
ADVANCE Regional Network's cross-institutional E-mentoring
network!
Are you an assistant female professor in STEM seeking a good mentor?
Are you a senior faculty member – female or male – in STEM seeking an
opportunity to serve as a mentor?
A good mentoring program is key for promotion, retention, and a healthy
climate!
Join the ARN E-mentoring Network as a mentor or mentee for the Spring/Summer 2016 session!
What is the E-Mentoring Network? The ARN partners developed the E-Mentoring Network, a
unique, on-line, multi-university, mentoring network for women STEM tenure-track and tenured
faculty. The E-mentoring network is open to junior women STEM faculty (mentees) and tenured
women (mentee s or mentors) and men STEM faculty (mentors).
How do I join? Complete a profile at https://arn.mentornet.org. The quick sign-up includes 13
multi-choice profile questions; a short biographical statement, which should be accessible to a

2. general university audience; and your "mentoring aspiration", a brief personal statement of why you
would like to be a mentor or mentee.
What topics will mentors and mentees talk about? Pairs receive weekly discussion
topics, designed to address the mentee's concerns and support her career advancement. These
topics help start conversations that lead to meaningful interactions. Pairs choose how to
communicate – email, Skype, phone, text – whatever works for them.
What if my mentor/mentee doesn't work out? No problem! You can try someone else.
Where is the ARN E-Mentoring Network hosted? The ARN E-Mentoring Network is hosted
by MentorNet, a division of Great Minds in STEM. The MentorNet platform is a secure, online, social
network specifically designed for mentoring.
What is ARN? The ADVANCE Regional Network (ARN), created at the Center for ADVANCING
UH Faculty Success at the University of Houston (UH) in 2014, is a consortium of ADVANCE
institutions in Texas that includes Texas A&M, Prairie View A&M, Rice University, the University
of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), and UH. Our goal is to create beneficial and productive
cross-institutional faculty relationships.
Join TODAY at https://arn.mentornet.org!
For more information, please contact Lisa Robertson at lcrobertson@uh.edu or 713 743 4210
View this 2-minute tutorial on how to create a great profile:
How To Complete Your ARN Profile