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The MERLOT ELIXR Initiative offers a digital case story repository that hosts more than 70 discipline-specific multimedia stories. Digital stories for faculty development can provide real-life experiences of exemplary teaching strategies and the process of implementing them. These digital case stories can be used freely in faculty development programs and also accessed by individual instructors.
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Are You a Good Protégé? - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Someone who is respected within the field and has contacts who can help you with publications and jobs. Someone who is knowledgeable about the university and its politics and policies. Someone who takes the time to help with your studies and your career. Someone who does not exploit you. Someone who is not a disinterested observer of your career but cares about you as a person and is supportive -- like a coach cheering you on.
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the profile is similar to how junior faculty members would describe their ideal career mentor, too.
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The mentor relationship is alive and well in the sciences, where there is a strong tradition of senior researchers bringing postdocs and new assistant professors into their laboratories and grant projects. But in the social sciences and humanities, probably because of the difficult job market, relations between established scholars and newcomers to the profession seem strained.
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Do You Have a Bad Mentor? - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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In every assistant professor there seems to lurk a Karate Kid seeking a Mr. Miyagi who will train his acolyte to be a skilled warrior in the art of research, teaching, and service and impart pithy life lessons along the way. Such singular folks exist, and you may find one. But it's far more likely that you will find several mentors who, while not well-versed in all aspects of academic life, will offer good advice in one or another area.
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Someone who got tenure 30 years ago may not appreciate what it takes to get tenure today. The young tenure tracker may not know, or catch on quickly enough, that the same mentor who is a wizard of statistical methodology is offering awful advice about handling disruptions in the classroom. Or perhaps the issue is transference: A scholar may excel at conceptualizing new theory, for example, but may not be good at teaching others to do likewise.
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In the words of Ronald Reagan, one should "trust but verify."
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The Pitfalls of Academic Mentorships - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 0 views
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At the height of Plumb's career through the 1960s and early 1970s, the word "mentor" was used only occasionally in academe or the corporate world.
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The era of the mentor began in earnest only in the mid-1970s. The Yale psychologist Daniel J. Levinson, best known for his studies of middle age, had a precise definition quoted in The Christian Science Monitor on February 14, 1977: a person 8 to 15 years older than the "mentee," a "peer or older brother" rather than a "distant father." Levinson continued: "He takes the younger man under his wing, ... imparts his wisdom, cares, sponsors, criticizes, and bestows his blessing."
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Corporate mentoring took center stage in 1978 and 1979 with two articles in the Harvard Business Review. The title of the first, an interview with a group of senior executives from the Jewel Companies, echoes to this day: "Everyone Who Makes It Has a Mentor."
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How First-Year Faculty Members Can Help Their Chairmen - Advice - The Chronicle of High... - 0 views
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Ask for multiple mentors so you can get the benefit of experts in more than one topic. Many professors are overworked and overassigned, so getting a single, good mentor can be a pretty tall order. Instead, work with your chairman to determine four or five topics on which you would like to receive guidance from several mentors.
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Some suggestions: Find out who the whizzes are at teaching the various kinds of courses in your department and ask to meet with them. Believe me, most good teachers will find time to talk about their own approaches to teaching; it's quite flattering. Ask to be linked with someone who can help you to understand how to balance scholarship and good teaching, or how to make the service expectations of the institution jibe with the teaching expectations. After you meet with your colleagues, talk about these things with your chairman.
When a Mentor Becomes a Thief - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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The solution, then, is clear: Everyone needs to start talking. Before a single beaker gets rinsed, the question of authorship has to be laid on the table,
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junior researchers should keep detailed notes of their research.
Female and Minority Law Professors Said to Need Mentors - Faculty - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views
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Law schools should be sure that female and minority professors have mentors and other support to improve their chances of winning tenure,
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female and minority professors were less likely to win tenure than their white, male colleagues
A Helping Hand for Young Faculty Members - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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"She wasn't really familiar with my discipline, but she was able to give me perspectives about the institution from a different vantage point. I really grew to appreciate that."
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an increasing number of colleges now rely on formal mentor programs, many of them campuswide, to give new faculty members guaranteed access to senior professors who can help them.
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These days, actively seeking career guidance within the ivory tower doesn't hold the stigma for new professors that it once did
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Why You'll Want a Mentor Outside the Ivory Tower, Too - Advice - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views
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A good place to start searching for a mentor is within your existing network -- that same pool of friends, alumni, and other contacts who helped you during your job search
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Since most work environments are very different from academe, you will probably look to a mentor for an explanation of the mores of your new office
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Mentors have much to gain from these relationships as well. A senior staff member often learns valuable insights into the organization through the eyes of a talented newcomer like yourself.
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Mentors and the Importance of Commitment - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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"Mentoring" is in vogue, thanks in part to the Bush administration's emphasis on volunteerism.
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The effects of mentoring are smaller than people think
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But if you begin to control for the quality of the relationship, how long it lasts, the level of supervision, the kinds of kids who are recruited into the program, there are much larger effects.
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