MENTORING RESOURCES

Undergraduate mentoring:

International Mentoring Tips:
International students have perhaps the hardest time on campus, but the School of Education at the Indiana University Bloomington has some tips for peer mentoring to make their stay a little bit easier.

• http://www.indiana.edu/~ipmp/hotto.htm

Tips for Mentees:
The mentors can’t do all of the work, and Pennsylvania State has a list of tips for not only mentors but mentees.

• http://www.equity.psu.edu/mrc/kewl/mentoring_tips.asp

Ten Tips for Effective Mentoring:
The University of Minnesota Alumni Association offers ten quick and easy tips for mentors.

• http://www.alumni.umn.edu/Ten_Tips_for_Effective_Mentoring.html

 Best Mentoring Practices:
The Mettle of a Mentor by Vicki M. Denmark and India J Podsen about what’s needed to make the mentor-mentee relationship work.

• http://www.nsdc.org/library/publications/jsd/denmark214.cfm

Characteristics of Effective Mentors by Barry Sweeney is a list of what an effective mentor is and does.

• http://www.ccsd59.org/mentoring/CharacEffecMentors.html

Women’s Mentoring Network:
Perhaps the best on-campus mentoring network for women in the United States, Illinois State University has a mission to mentor women for success. Based in the Women and Gender Studies Department, it intertwines the sciences and humanities departments to relate to all women. They offer expos and conferences as well as individual mentoring.

• http://www.mentoringnetwork.ilstu.edu/

Feminist Mentoring:
Writing a Feminist’s Life: The Legacy of Carolyn G. Heilbrun by Nancy K. Miller and Victoria Rosner share how one feminist mentor helped her students become a success.

• http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/heilbrun/vandenburg_04.htm

A Virtual Dialogue on Feminist Mentoring of Cynthia Mahaffey and Sandra Meade is a piece on how to strengthen a feminist mentoring relationship.

• http://www.womenwriters.net/summer05/scholarly/mahaffey_meade.htm

 

Graduate mentoring:

Handbooks:
How to Mentor Graduate Studies: A guide for Faculty at a Diverse University from the University of Michigan’s Rackham School of Graduate Studies, offers the most thorough advice on how to mentor graduate students.

• http://www.rackham.umich.edu/downloads/publications/Fmentoring.pdf

Feminist Mentoring and Female Graduate Student Success: Challenging Gender Inequality in Higher Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia is a nineteen page guide to the benefits of women’s mentoring.

• http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00042.x?cookieSet=1

Ethics, Feminist Principles, and Professional Development is a paper by Lucia Albino Gilbert from the University of Texas about cross-generational mentoring themes brought up at a conference.

• http://www.utexas.edu/student/connexus/lucia/conferencethemes8-05final.pdf

Basic Mentoring Tips:
The Graduate Student Center at the University of Pennsylvania has one of the simplest sites for how to mentor properly.

• http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/programs/mentoring/tips.htm

Bibliography
Women Mentoring Women offers weblinks for all aspects of women’s mentoring. From links for mentors, mentees, books, and even just links for interest, Yale University hails women’s mentoring.

• http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/careers/mentoringLinks.html

Articles of Interest:
Carole R. Fontaine, Ph.D. has a wonderful article that chronicles her experiences with Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., feminist mentor, and how he drove her toward wisdom.

• http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-107759380.html

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STUDENT MENTORING PROGRAM AT NWSA CONFERENCE

Each year at the Conference, NWSA offers its successful career document review  Students who are preparing for academic and/or nonprofit careers may sign up for one-on-one review sessions with volunteer mentors who will review their resumes, c.v.s, and cover letters.

Sign up form will be available for the 2009 Conference (to be held November) sometime in the Spring. Check back for further details!