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Recommended Reading for Mentoring

Want to improve your understanding of academic mentoring? The Council of Graduate Schools has compiled a list of recommended journal articles on the subject. Below are further resources that the Graduate School recommends.

From Mentor to Mentoring Networks: Mentoring in the New Academy

Mary Deane Sorcinelli & Jung Yun (2007)

“…This review highlights recent faculty-development resources, all published since 2000, that offer fresh models, concepts, and thinking on mentoring in higher education, particularly the mentoring of new and underrepresented faculty.”

Beyond a Definition: Toward a Framework for Designing and Specifying Mentoring Models

Phillip Dawson (2014)

“…This framework provides researchers and practitioners with a detailed yet concise method of communicating exactly what they mean when using the word mentoring…”

Called to Lead: Discovering the Connections Between Military Service and Higher Education Leadership

Barrett Y. Bogue & Andrew Morse (2020)

“…this paper identifies the reasons why veterans choose to work in higher education, captures the leadership skills and traits learned in the military that practically apply to their roles, identifies current challenges in higher education’s mission to serve students, and provides recommendations for recruiting more veterans into leadership roles…”

Transdisciplinary Mentoring Networks to Develop and Sustain Inclusion in Graduate Programs 

Michelle F. Eble (2020)

“…This article focuses on cultivating transdisciplinary mentoring networks as a way to recruit, support, and be inclusive in both fields by focusing on their users—primarily graduate students, but also early-career faculty…”

Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Their Advisors: Is There Systematic Disadvantage in Mentorship?

Shiri Noy & Rashawn Ray (2012)

“…We explore how race and gender shape graduate students’ perceptions of their advisors…”

Toward a Conceptual Model of Mentoring Research: Integration with Self-Regulated Learning

Dale H. Schunk & Carol A. Mullen (2013)

“…An integration of mentoring with self-regulated learning seems valuable because self-regulated learning researchers have employed methodologies to assess its dynamic nature…”

The Higher Education Landscape for US Student Service Members and Veterans in Indiana

Stacie Hitt, Martina Sternberg, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Joyce Vaughan, Rhiannon Carlson, Elizabeth Dansie, Martina Mohrbacher  (2015)

“…Considerable variability across campuses suggested opportunities to refine, coordinate, and expand assistance to student service members and veterans…”

Mentoring Graduate Students in Research and Teaching by Utilizing Research as a Template

Christopher C. Knutson, Milton N. Jackson, Jr., Matt Beekman, Matthew E. Carnes, Darren W. Johnson, David C. Johnson, Douglas A. Keszler (2014)

“…We have designed a unique guided-inquiry-inspired course for entry-level graduate students using chemical research as a mechanism to teach research-oriented problem-solving skills…”

An Exemplar in Mentoring and Professional Development: Teaching Graduate Students Transferable Skills beyond the Discipline

Gina Weisblat & Christine Sell (2012)

“…examines the development of center programs and their impact on students, scholarship, and twenty-first century skill sets…”

Race Still Matters: Considerations for Mentoring Black Women in Academe

Holmes, Sharon L, Lynette Danley Land Hinton-Hudson, Veronica D (2007)

“…using extant literature interwoven with narrative data, we provided an analysis of how some Black women experience mentoring and/or the mentor-mentee relationship…”

Discrimination in Recruitment, Admission, and Retention of Minority Graduate Students 

Anne S. Pruitt, Paul D. Isaac  (1985)

“…this article focuses on those American racial and ethnic minority groups who are least well represented in graduate schools…”

“Take the Fifth”: Mentoring Students Whose Cultural Communities Were Not Historically Structured Into U.S. Higher Education

Jualynne E. Dodson, Beronda L. Montgomery & Lesley J. Brown (2009)

“…this article presents a description of the African Atlantic Research Team as exemplary of ten years of successful mentoring of undergraduate and graduate university students…”

Change Institutional Culture, and You Change Who Goes into Science

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Kenneth I. Maton (2009)

“…we convened focus groups made up of students, faculty, and staff to learn more about student underperformance…to consider strategies for supporting students better…”

Mentoring Experiences of Latina Graduate Students

GarcĂ­a, Irán O, Henderson, Sheila J (2015)

“…it is hoped that this small study will motivate much needed further research in the mentoring needs of the Latina/o community …”

Gender Differences in the Influence of Faculty–Student Mentoring Relationships on Satisfaction with College among African Americans

Terrell L. Strayhorn, Tonya N. Saddler (2009)

“…although Black men report more frequent engagement than women in both formal and informal relationships with their faculty mentors; gender neither yields a statistically significant influence on satisfaction with college…nor mediates the influence of mentoring on Black students’ satisfaction with college…”

Faculty-Graduate Student Mentoring Relationships: Mentors’ Perceived Roles and Responsibilities

Vicente M. Lechuga (2011)

“…faculty-graduate student relationships can be described by three broad descriptors that characterize participants’ roles and responsibilities—faculty members as Allies, Ambassadors, and Master-Teachers…”

Mentoring Graduate Students of Color: Myths, Models, and Modes

M. Christopher Brown, II, Guy L. Davis, Shederick A. McClendon (1999)

“…this article is focused on exploring what mentoring graduate students of color requires…”

University of Virginia Graduate Mentoring Institute: A Model Program for Graduate Student Success

Tazzarae Spivey-Mooring and Cheryl Burgan Apprey (2014)

“…this article is focused on exploring what mentoring graduate students of color requires…”

Examining the Role of Friendship in Mentoring Relationships between Graduate Students and Faculty Advisors

Jacqueline L., Dixon, Jess C. (2016)

“…summarize empirical findings and conceptual advancements on the topic of friendship in graduate student-faculty advisor mentoring relationships…”

How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty

Rackham Graduate School: University of Michigan (2014)

“..suggestions for further reading, campus resources, and examples of practices that other faculty have found useful for cultivating a positive mentor-mentee relationship…”

Anchoring a Mentoring Network in a New Faculty Development Program

Linda Beane-Katner (2014)

“..a mentoring network that is anchored in an extended new faculty development program and aligns with the needs and expectations of this cohort will better develop the competencies necessary for their success in the professoriate…”

Mentoring and Networking: How to Make it Work

Laura Haynes, Sherrill L Adams & Jeremy M Boss (2014)

“..mentoring and networking are critical components for success in science…”

Academic Mentoring: Enhancing the Use of Scarce Resources

Pamela Mathews (2003)

“..the aim is to give the reader an understanding of the mentoring process, its uses and benefits, and its potential use in an academic environment…”

Reconceptualizing Mentoring at Work: A Developmental Network Perspective 

Monica C. Higgins, Kathy E. Kram (2001)

“..bringing in theory and methods from social network research to help us understand mentoring as a multiple developmental relationship phenomenon…”

An Examination of Effective Mentoring Models in the Academy

Welch, Olga M (1996)

“..this report presents a two-part discussion of models of mentoring in higher education…”

Effective Strategies to Increase Diversity in STEM Fields: A Review of the Research Literature

Lisa Tsui (2007)

“..review presents the research evidence that exists for ten intervention strategies commonly adopted by programmatic efforts striving to increase diversity in…STEM fields…”

Generations at Work: The Problems, Power, and Promise Explored

Linda Wilson (2009)

“..highlights the tensions and misunderstandings that can happen among different generations in the workplace…”

Spanning the Generation Gap in the Workplace

Stephanie Wood (2005)

“..a level generational conflict that is so pervasive it is influencing how businesses are run, how employees are treated, how career goals are met, and how customers are served…”

Looking for Professor Right: mentee selection of mentors in a formal mentoring program

Amani Bell, Lesley Treleaven (2011)

“..a detailed analysis of the pairing process in an academic mentoring program that has implications for building a mentoring culture in higher education…”