Challenges and Strategies of Successful Mentoring: The Perspective of LEADS Scholars and Mentors from Minority Serving Institutions
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Mentoring continues to be a salient conversation in academia among junior and senior faculty and administrators. Mentors provide guidance and structure to junior faculty so that they can meet their academic and professional goals. Mentors also convey skills in balancing life and academic pursuits. Therefore, the purpose of this descriptive study was to provide additional insight from a training program called Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success (LEADS) regarding successful strategies and challenges of mentoring relating to lessons learned from the scholars and mentees' perspective. The LEADS program provided multiple training platforms to increase skills and knowledge regarding research to promote expertise in grant writing and submission for funding opportunities among diverse scientists. These findings reinforce the knowledge about the value of a mentor in helping define the research pathway of their mentee and underscoring the importance of mentoring.
Institutions: Howard University, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Hampton University, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Hawaii System, Queen's Medical Center, North Carolina Central University, Morehouse School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,484
Awards: G4919574077, G6550722648
OpenAlex ID: W3169854250