Graduate student/faculty mentoring relationships: Who gets mentored, how it happens, and to what end

摘要: Given the importance of mentoring in academic context, this study proposed five objectives. Analyses surveys from 145 students across 12 universities and diverse disciplines, revealed first all, a demographic profile typical graduate student protege faculty mentor. Second, ten communication strategies emerged that demonstrate how initiate relationship. Third, evaluations their initiation attempts efforts to be somewhat ineffective unduly difficult. Fourth, reported mentors provide primarily psychosocial, rather than career support. And fifth, proteges characterized relationships as extremely positive satisfying. Results throughout are, for most part, independent both mentor demographics (including ethnicity).