Mentoring Continuum

Recent developments in academic mentoring have challenged long-standing conceptions of the mentor-mentee relationship as a top-down, wisdom-bestowing proposition. There is growing awareness that for the majority of their working lives, academics are both mentors and mentees, and have shifting needs and obligations as their careers progress. That is, they occupy a mentoring continuum whose navigation requires effort, reflection, and good faith. This book offers theoretical and practical tools to help them on their way and indicates how institutional resources can be mobilized in support. Topics include: Peer mentoringEffective student/faculty/administrative collaborationsWeb-facilitated mentoringNonacademic career preparationTeaching as an ongoing area of professional developmentNegotiating difference in mentor-mentee relationshipsTransitioning between dissimilar institutionsThe complex interaction of role modeling and mentoringMentee agency and responsibility