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Mark Morton

From 'Old Boys' to Mentors - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by Mark Morton on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • To hear others tell it, an "old boys' club" ran universities and the academic professions well into the 1970s, and if you were lucky enough to win admission into the club, you got the mentoring -- or more precisely, the patron-client relationship -- at the heart of the master-apprentice model
  • Today, talk about mentoring is ubiquitous in virtually every field, and at all levels of education
Mark Morton

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."
  • 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.
  • 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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  • "It used to be sink or swim." Either you were cut out for the professoriate, or you weren't, she says. "But now you walk into a new place and it's not shameful to need help."
  • baffling task of pinning down the right mix of research, teaching, and service that will lead to tenure.
  • On a scale of 1 to 5, with the highest number representing "very important," the mean score for informal mentoring was 4.49. Formal mentoring was slightly less important with a mean score of 4.04.
  • "We try to have multiple pathways for people to engage in finding mentors,"
  • Officials at Yale University are fast-tracking efforts to shape the informal faculty mentors that is common on its campus into a more formal mentor process
  • Ms. Trower says that the more corporate mentorship mode — which includes training mentors and protégés, setting goals, and measuring the end result — isn't yet common in academe. Meanwhile, formal mentor programs do have at least one drawback: a mismatch can result in a strained relationship from which neither party sees a way out.
  • the future of mentor programs for faculty members should include outreach to midcareer professors
Mark Morton

Why You'll Want a Mentor Outside the Ivory Tower, Too - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • "An Unorthodox Guide to Mentoring"
Mark Morton

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.
  • The effects of mentoring are smaller than people think
  • 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.
Veronica Brown

The Amazon of Higher Education - 2 views

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shared by Veronica Brown on 06 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Veronica Brown on 06 Jan 14
     
    Was interested in this link because of the idea of how a school addressed issues of struggling enrolment. I'm interested in the topic, particularly for smaller programs. This article is about a whole institution - if anyone has read some effective strategies about how to grow enrolment, I'd love to read them.
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