QUESTIONS FOR JUNIOR FACULTY TO ASK THEIR MENTORS:

- Department and Professional Citizenship
	- how to be a good department citizen
	- how to develop a research group from scratch
	- how to participate in activities of an existing
	  research group 
	- committees at <your institution>
		- how thesis committees work 
		- how prelim committees work
		- what department committees are really good for a
		  first-year person to be on (graduate admissions
		  comm), why (to recruit students) and when (your
		  first spring semester)
		- what other committees you might be asked to be on or
		  want to be on
	- academic advising: what to expect - role, timing, numbers, etc.
	- professional citizenship
		- reviewing: which, when, why, and how much of this to do
		- conference program committees: what are the mechanics,
		  the issues, and the dis/advantages of being on these
		- granting agency review panels: what are the mechanics,
		  the issues, and the dis/advantages of being on these
	- how and when to say no to students, colleagues, dept chairs, Deans, ...

- Grants
	- what grants/awards to apply for 
		- in your area
		- as a junior person (NSF CAREER, etc.)
	- how/when/why to have a co-PI
	- how to find out about department-wide (and broader) multi-PI
          grants how/when/why to get involved in these
	- how to find out about deadlines for such things
	- how different agencies work in terms of hot/cold topics, review 
	  mechanics, award terms and amounts, philosophy, etc.
	- how to get admin help with proposals and when to ask

- Personnel
	- how to select students
	- how to recruit and interact with students 
		- what incentives you can give them
		- other ways to increase the probabilities
		- how to balance the likelihoods that they'll go elsewhere
	- how to handle students who don't make progress (in doing research,
 		in writing it up, etc.)
	- how the selection/admission processes work
	- how/when to ask senior fac in your area to let you work 
	  with one of their senior students for a term or two
	- how/when/why to recruit postdocs
	- how the dept admin support works
	- what hourlies can do and how to get that to happen
	- what to do if you have an angry or distraught student in your office
	- what to do if you are concerned about a student's physical or 
		mental health

- Teaching
	- who does teaching assignments (and how)
	- what to teach at which points in your pre-tenure career
	- how to get the following assigned to your course:
		- a TA
		- a grader
		- computer resources
		- a good room 

- Resources
	- how to get space for:
		- students
		- lab/computer equipment
		- postdocs
	- the IT support organization
		- what kind of support do they provide
		- what's appropriate to ask for
		- how, when, and why to make requests
		- what are some good ways to interact with them	
	- what department infrastructure exists (e.g., machines, printers,
	  networking, peripherals, backups, etc.) and how to get access to it
	- what the faculty ombuds office does; how/when to ask them for help

- Review
	- yearly
		- how this works, when it happens, and what you should
		  be keeping track of so it's as painless as possible
		- student ratings of courses and professors: how are
		  these used and how to get good ratings?

	- reappointment and tenure
		- how to choose a research community, make yourself known,
		  and cultivate letter-writers
		- what are the expectations?
		- what documents you need to prepare, and by when
		- what bureaucracy it goes through