Mentoring at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)

Jeton McClinton, Jackson State University.David S.B. Mitchell, University of West Georgia.Tyrell Carr, Saint Augustine’s University.Mark A. Melton, Saint Augustine’s University.Gerunda B. Hughes, Howard University.

• Introduction.Section I. Gender Focused Mentoring Programs.Chapter 1. Faculty Women of Color: Peer Mentoring in a Virtual Community of Practice; Deena Khalil and Dessynie Edwards.Chapter 2. Filling the Void: Redesigning Education by Integrating Proven Mentoring Support Systems That Help Students Persist; Maricela Gonzalez-Silva.Chapter 3. No Role Models: The Experience of Black and Latino Men in a Mentorship Program at a Two-Year Hispanic Serving Institution; Lazaro Camacho, Jr., Kayla C. Elliott, and Cristobal Salinas.Chapter 4. The RED Owl Collaborative: Leveraging Sisterhood and Social Justice; Janeula M. Burt and Erinn Fears Floyd.Section II. Graduate Students Mentoring Programs.Chapter 5. African American Mentoring Program: A Soft Place to Land for African American Graduate Students; Tonika Duren Green, Beverly Booker Ammah and Nicole Belisle.Chapter 6. Culture Shock: Promoting Mentoring and Professional Development for African American Doctoral Student Success; Sheila D. Moore.Chapter 7. Mentoring Graduate Students For Success: The Necessity of Hogar; Babette M. Benken and Bryan A. Rodrí­guez.Chapter 8. Student Perspectives of Mentor Relationships: The Extent to Which Social Work Doctoral Students Are Impacted by Mentor Ideals and Types; Kenya C. Jones and Nilajah M. Nyasuma Sims.Section III. Stem Mentoring Programs.Chapter 9. Closing The Gap: An NSF-funded Multi-faceted Mentoring Approach To Reducing The Barriers To Academic Success For Underrepresented Stem Majors; Mark A. Melton, Tyrell Carr, Alieu Wurie, Marino Green, Doreen Cunningham, and Grace Byfield.Chapter 10. Moving the Needle: A Peer Mentoring Program Impacting Graduation Rates for Underrepresented College Students in STEM; Margie Vela, Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos, Mazen Shahin, and Melissa A. Harrington.Chapter 11. NanoHU: A Model of Community Mentoring for STEM Excellence at Hampton University; Michelle O. Fletcher Claville, Sainath Babu, and Brandon C. Parker.Chapter 12. STEM Mentoring Programs to Prepare Career Scientists at San Francisco State University; Frank Bayliss, Alan Peterfreund, and Ken Rath.Section IV. Frameworks In Mentoring Programs.Chapter 13. An Academic Mentor/Protege Cross Cultural Theory and Practice: A Case Study; Amber Daniel and Suzanne Franco.Chapter 14. Solving Undergraduate Retention Through Mentoring: A Case Study; Leigh Remy, Debbi Johnson-Rais, and Jessica Cornely.Chapter 15. Strengths-Based Peer Mentoring: Collectivist Principles in Action; Gloria Aquino Sosa and Tracy Pascua Dea.Section V. Student Focused Mentoring Programs.Chapter 16. Empowering Underrepresented First-Generation College Students Through Peer Mentoring in a Hispanic Service Institution; Elsa Gonzalez, Hilda-Cecilia Contreras-Aguirre, Stephen Luis, and Roman Torres.Chapter 17. Increasing Cross-Campus Engagement: Understanding Student Athletes Through Faculty Mentorship; Tiese Roxbury.Section VI. Teacher Education And School Administration Mentoring Programs.Chapter 18. Mentoring Black Pre-Service Teachers to the Classroom: An Othermothering/Otherparenting Approach; Lynnette Mawhinney and Emery Petchauer.Chapter 19. !Si, Se Puede! Creating Developmental, Relational Mentoring Networks for Future School Leaders; Kathleen Cowin.About the Contributors.