Critical Musings in Higher Education: Mentors Matter for Black Lives

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will provide an insight to how Black faculty, administrators and doctoral students interrupt the conversation around mentorship. In this session we will disrupt the space by critiquing “mentoring” through an Afrocentric paradigm, while offering a culturally relevant approach to mentorship. By drawing on the perspectives of Black faculty, administrators and students, the symposium offers both theoretical and practical tools necessary when supporting the growth and development of Black students that derives from ontological position of being Black in the academy.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Policies, Mattering, and Praxis

Chair

• Venus E. Evans-Winters, African American Policy Forum

Papers

• Mentoring Black Female Student in Doctoral Programs - Jessica Brown, Illinois State University

• Mentoring and Black Males in Higher Education - Norris Chase, Illinois State University

• Mentoring Matters: A Case for Implementing a Financial Aid Literacy Programs on Your Campus - Tiffany S Bumpers, University of Illinois at Chicago

Discussant

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago