Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Faculty

• In Event: 60.084 - Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: 60.084-3 - Crossing Boundaries: Diverse Perspectives in the Professoriate

Abstract

While mentorship facilitates the persistence of women faculty and faculty of color, the under-representation of faculty of color and women in higher education greatly reduces the opportunities for these groups to find mentors of their race, ethnicity, or gender. Recognizing that mentoring across gender, race, and ethnicity inserts levels of complexity to this important process, this manuscript provides an in-depth look at successful mentorships of senior White and senior Scholars of Color with emerging women scholars and emerging scholars of color. A comparative analysis of the literature and narratives of long standing mentorship relationships concludes with the identification of key characteristics and pathways for developing successful mentoring relationships across race, ethnicity, and gender, and recommendations for institutional policy and practice.

Authors

• Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, California State University - Sacramento

• Juan Carlos Gonzalez, California State University - Fresno