To promote mentorship and support of a new colleague’s scholarship, departments find it useful to establish an explicit dialogue to monitor and promote scholarly progress. In each review, FPC holds the candidate to the standard of “evidence of externally validated scholarship.” Following the model of teaching mentorship, FPC suggests several intentional conversations each year about this scholarship:

• research projects
• plans for dissemination of scholarship (conference presentation, publication, etc.)
• timelines
• research support in the form of grants, etc.

As it reflects these conversations, the departmental review statement will be most helpful in providing documentation of the candidate’s scholarly trajectory. The FPC document “Defining Scholarship at Kalamazoo College” was prepared to help with these conversations.