Description:
While mentorship has been shown to be critical in helping graduate students persist and complete their studies, and enter upon and succeed in their academic careers, the under-representation of faculty of color and women in higher education greatly reduces the opportunities for graduate students from these selfsame groups.
Review Quotes:
"Two of the most fundamental questions about mentoring are: (1) 'How do we know that mentoring makes a difference? and, (2) What does effective mentoring look like or feel like?
This is a book that speaks to these questions and examines them through phenomenology - from the lens of those who enter, experience, and benefit directly from mentoring relationships. If you are a graduate student, faculty member, college or university administrator, and an aspiring academic, this book will speak to you!
There are books on mentoring and mentoring relationships, yet few that take a look at the relationship across gender, race, and ethnicity, as well as from other lenses and experiences such as what you will encounter here. This book has the potential to influence mentoring practice, processes, and policies by bringing issues that many of us still find uncomfortable talking about in academia - the micro and macro-aggressions associated with the experiences of women and faculty of color in higher education - into focus. We espouse that cultivating the next generation of academics of color is important and a reality for countless reasons; however; we often underestimate the impact an effective mentoring relationship can have on that generation. Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender is insightful and informative and can help us to experience mentoring relationships in deeper and impactful ways to bridge the gender, social, and cultural divide."
Christine A. Stanley, Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity
Texas A&M University