Mentoring Faculty

Egan, Kathryn S. “Flexibility Makes the Difference in Mentoring Women for Academic Success.” JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION ADMINISTRATION 2 (May 1994): 87-94. Offers advice on features of successful mentoring programs.

Henry, Janice Schoen, et al. “A Formal Mentoring Program for Junior Female Faculty: Description and Evaluation.” INITIATIVES 56, no. 2 (1994): 37-45. Describes program at Southern Illinois University. New faculty were paired with mentors outside their immediate departments.

Johnsrud, Linda K. “Enabling the Success of Junior Faculty Women Through Mentoring.” In MENTORING REVISITED: MAKING AN IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS, ed. by Marie A. Wunsch, 53-63. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994. Describes components of program at University of Hawaii, concluding that successful programs need an institutional framework — including visibility, administrative support, and some structure — to encourage participants to spend time together.

Johnsrud, Linda K. and Marie A. Wunsch. “Barriers to Success for Women in Academic Life: Perceptions of Participants in a Colleague Pairing Program.” HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 13, no. 1 (1994): 1-12. Exploratory study of the differences and commonalities of perceptions of senior and junior female faculty as to barriers, and how these changed over time when pairing occurred.

Limbert, Claudia A. “Chrysalis, A Peer Mentoring Group for Faculty and Staff Women.” NWSA JOURNAL 7, no. 2 (1995): 86-99. Reviews the advantages and disadvantages of senior-male/junior-female and senior-female/junior-female mentoring models, then describes peer mentoring model successfully used at Pennsylvania State University.

McCormick, Theresa. “An Analysis of Some Pitfalls of Traditional Mentoring for Minorities and Women in Higher Education.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, 1991). 26 p. ED334905, available from EDRS. Addresses some problems with mentoring, such as the scarcity of senior level mentors for minority women, the difficulties of cross-race and cross-gender relationships, and promotion of entrenched traditional practices. Advocates mentorship programs that recognize and deal with the pitfalls.

Peterson, Susan. “Challenges for Black Women Faculty.” INITIATIVES 53, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 33-36. Role models and mentors help Black women faculty deal with isolation and role conflicts.

Pistole, M. Carole. “Mentoring Women’s Academic Careers: Using A Family Model to Enhance Women’s Success.” INITIATIVES 56, no. 2 (1994): 29-36. The systematic maturation model of family development is shown to have useful concepts that parallel professional development needs.

Richey, Cheryl A., Eileen D. Gambrill, and Betty J. Blythe. “Mentor Relationships Among Women in Academe.” AFFILIA 3, no. 2 (Spring 1988): 34-47. Discusses the stages of mentor relationships and need for creating new models for feminist oriented mentorships, such as closer to a sibling than to a parent/child bond.

Sandler, Bernice Resnick. SUCCESS AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN FACULTY MEMBERS. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges, 1992. 13-page blueprint for success that includes finding a mentor as one the important strategy. (Also found in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION 57, no. 1 [Spring 1993]: 58-67.)

Wunsch, Marie A. “Giving Structure to Experience: Mentoring Strategies For Women Faculty.” INITIATIVES 56, no. 1 (1994): 1-10. Describes a women-mentoring-women pilot program at the University of Hawaii that included a formal mentoring agreement between members of colleague pairs.

Wunsch, Marie A. “Mentoring Probationary Women Academics: A Pilot Programme for Career Development.” STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 18, no. 3 (1993): 349-62. The experimental program at a public university included mentor training, colleague pairing, a mentoring agreement, and career development workshops.