Holding Space-Making Room: Using Mentoring to Support African American Women Administrators in Academe

• In Event: Mentoring Internationally as Well as at Home

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore different variables that influence mentoring as a tool to assist African American Higher women as education administrators. This study seeks to answer whether cultivating mentoring relationships help alleviate problems faced by African American women at predominantly white institutions.

Authors

• Stella L. Smith, Prairie View A&M University

• Leslie Uchenna Ekpe, Texas Christian University