Mentoring Students

Bruce, Mary Alice. “Mentoring Women Doctoral Students: What Counselor Educators and Supervisors Can Do.” COUNSELOR EDUCATION AND SUPERVISION 35, no. 2 (December 1995): 139-149. Qualitative research study of two students who re-entered university to pursue doctorates in education. Points out ways counselor educators can facilitate mentoring experiences.

Cain, Mary Ann. “Mentoring as Identity Exchange: Conflicts and Connections.” FEMINIST TEACHER 8, no. 3 (1994): 112-118. Describes the relationship between the author and her dissertation director, Lil Brannon, in which the mentor model is re-imagined into a woman to woman relationship of reciprocity.

Casamayou, Maureen Hogan and Nina Mikhalevsky. “Women’s Leadership Roles and Washington Internships.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Washington, DC, September 2-5, 1993). 33 p. Considers the importance of role mentoring and internship experiences for female political science students. Available from EDRS, ED363566.

Christiansen, Martha D., et al. “Perceptions of the Work Environment and Implications for Women’s Career Choice: A Survey of University Faculty Women.” CAREER DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY 38, no. 1 (1989): 57-64. Surveys the desire of women faculty to be part of a resource bank for advising female students about career paths.

Ervin, Elizabeth. “Power, Frustration, and `Fierce Negotiation’ in Mentoring Relationships: Four Women Tell Their Stories.” WOMEN’S STUDIES 24, no. 5 (1995): 447-481. Personal mentoring experiences of four women graduate students at variance with the official institutional view of mentoring espoused in a position paper. Concludes that the expectations and perspectives of the women need to be considered more by the institutions.

Fish, Cheryl. “Someone to Watch Over Me: Politics and Paradoxes in Academic Mentoring.” In WORKING-CLASS WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY: LABORERS IN THE KNOWLEDGE FACTORY, ed. by Michelle M. Tokarczyk and Elizabeth A. Fay, 179-196. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Argues for inclusion of mentoring into the policy infrastructure and for collaborative projects between mentors and mentees.

Heinrich, Kathleen T. “Doctoral Advisement Relationships Between Women: On Friendship and Betrayal.” JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION 66, no. 4 (July 1995): 447-469. Relationships with women dissertation committee members was studied. The dissertators preferred advisors who became mentors, which the advisees defined as “collegial sharing of power,” compared to those who simply stood by.

Hulbert, Kathleen Day. “Gender Patterns in Faculty-Student Mentoring Relationships.” In GENDER AND ACADEME: FEMINIST PEDAGOGY AND POLITICS, ed. by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker, 247-263. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Examines same-gender and cross-gender mentoring, speculating that male-male mentoring tends to center on academic and research-related activities, whereas female-female includes achievement-related and, increasingly as the relationship develops, nurturant aspects.

Kronik, John W. “On Men Mentoring Women: Then and Now.” ADFL BULLETIN 21, no. 3 (Spring 1990): 22-27. A successful mentor relationship is based on mutual attraction involving friendship, guidance, and professional nurturing. A male mentor / female subordinate situation can work, but is fraught with complexities, including understanding “gender sensitivities and obligations that aren’t the same…” (p.25).

Olson, Gary O. and Evelyn Ashton-Jones. “The Politics of Gendered Sponsorship: Mentoring in the Academy.” In GENDER AND ACADEME: FEMINIST PEDAGOGY AND POLITICS, ed. by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker, 231-246. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Structured as conversation between mentor (Olson) and mentee (Ashton-Jones) during her doctoral training.

O’Rourke, J. “Mentor Project Targets Female Undergrads,” COMPUTER RESEARCH NEWS 5, no. 4 (September 1993): 3-5.

Paterson, Barbara and Fjola Hart-Wasekeesikaw. “Mentoring Women in Higher Education: Lessons From the Elders.” COLLEGE TEACHING 42, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 72-77. Traditional Native American cultures respect the learner’s individual learning style. This stance can be useful in devising ways to mentor women college students.

Turner, Caroline Sotello Viernes and Judith Rann Thompson. “Socializing Women Doctoral Students: Minority and Majority Experiences.” REVIEW OF HIGHER EDUCATION 16, no. 3 (Spring 1993): 355-70. Minority women doctoral students report relative isolation, lack of collegiality with other doctoral students, and lack of faculty mentoring; majority women doctoral students report more mentoring.

Wolf, Mary Alice. “Mentoring Middle-Aged Women in the Classroom.” ADULT LEARNING 4, no. 5 (May/June, 1993): 8-9, 22. Describes an interactive, collaborative model for mentoring middle-aged returning women students.