Faculty mentorship is associated with improved career outcomes, yet only a third of faculty report receiving formal mentoring. A first step in formal mentoring is acknowledging the mentoring relationship; acknowledgment can then lead to delineation of roles and responsibilities. We analyzed the mentoring relationships reported by our faculty in…

Preventing mentor-mentee relationships from ending prematurely is important because an early or unanticipated closure could lead to negative youth outcomes. In this study, the reasons for premature closure of a community-based mentoring program for youth with a visual impairment (VI) are studied. Data from 44 prematurely ended mentor-mentee pairs…

Mentoring is highly valued to support teachers' professional growth. Yet little is known about mentors' experiences and roles in supporting early childhood education teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand. This study sought to fill that gap by asking mentors how they foster teachers' capacity, as well as the barriers and enablers they have experienced…

This qualitative, phenomenological study explored the challenges faculty have experienced in mentoring Black women faculty and whether mentors receive adequate support from their colleges and universities to assist their mentees. Although there are several mentoring theories, the theoretical foundation used for this study is the relational…

The purpose of this grounded theory qualitative research study was to explore how relational motivations influenced mentoring relationships for Extension educators at a Midwestern land-grant university. This study was part of a larger research study that focused on the construction of a theoretical framework that described the mentoring processes…

Recent literature on mentoring revises the long-held notion of a dyadic, master-apprentice affiliation to better reflect the fluid, flexible, and even non-hierarchical dynamics that occur between mentors and mentees today. Relational mentoring, intersectional mentoring, and co-mentoring models offer frameworks for reconsidering the role of…

Considerable scholarly attention has been dedicated toward the role of peers in adolescents' romantic lives (Brown, 1999; Collins, 2003; Connolly & McIsaac, 2009, Korobov & Thorne, 2006). However, when it comes to the developmental significance of adults in promoting the healthy romantic functioning of adolescents, there has been…

Purpose: Building upon a larger mixed-methods research agenda, the purpose of this research study was to explore the growth of generativity (i.e. care for the next generation) among college student leaders who mentor, answering the central question "What changes in generativity do college student leaders who mentor associate with their…

Visions of teacher professionalism may shape common conceptualizations of high-quality mentoring, sometimes distortedly. Nevertheless, this relationship is often unnoticed, and studies rarely analyze mentor--teachers' work according to their interrelating visions. This multiple case study aimed at this literature gap. It examined the goals that…

Through qualitative methodology, the researcher examined the challenges that Black male college students at predominantly White institutions face when seeking to locate or establish relationships with mentors at their institutions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to get first-hand knowledge of ten senior undergraduate Black males…

Youth mentoring organizations miss the opportunity to re-engage the people they serve to help others within their organization. As such, they may perpetuate the marginalization of the youth served. Through the Clark and Estes (2008) gap analytical framework, this study sought to understand the gaps in knowledge, motivation, and organizational…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe the attributes of mentorship that are beneficial from a student's perspective and how those attributes may influence the student's ability to achieve degree completion. The Pathways to Mentoring Influence model guided the study and aided in the development of the research questions:…

The research project examined the relationship between mentor satisfaction and mentor self-efficacy, mentor support and training, and mentor strength of relationship. The study consisted of 26 mentors who completed their three-month mentoring anniversary with a local mentoring agency community-based program. The research employed both quantitative…

There is growing interest in reverse mentoring from an equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) perspective across the higher education (HE) sector. An interesting and under-explored area is the extent to which reverse mentoring may be utilised to connect the student body with university leadership, a significant category of people making decisions…

This study developed identification measures between U.S. Service Academy cadet squad members and squad leaders in peer-mentoring relationships, highlighting identification as an important antecedent to mentoring. However, research has failed to show evidence of this relationship, largely because researchers have failed to measure identification,…