Rebecca Gordon asks participants to consider the following videos and articles in advance of her panel on faculty mentorship, which will focus on mentoring faculty of color and faculty who were first-generation college students:

* [Lin-Manuel Miranda’s commencement address to students at UPenn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewHcsFlolz4)

* [President Obama’s commencement address at Rutgers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkCABjFT32A)

* [David Beard’s essay, on first generation faculty, published in 2013 in *Inside Higher Ed*](https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2013/03/04/essay-impact-being-first-generation-college-grad-when-one-joins-academic)