Mentoring for Success: Peer Mentoring and Early Career Faculty

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 23
  In Roundtable Session: Mentoring Collaborative Strategies

Abstract

This paper describes the origins of a co-constructed peer-mentoring model designed by and for early-career faculty representing historically underprivileged groups in the field of educational leadership. It details the experiences of early-career faculty as they design and implement a collaborative peer-mentoring program which includes components of the multicultural feminist model of mentoring, pays specific attention to early-career faculty development, and wellbeing. The study concludes that peer-mentoring groups provide support with which to navigate challenges facing faculty representing historically underprivileged groups related to their identities, in addition to the general pressures of working toward tenure.

Authors

• Benterah C. Morton, University of South Alabama

• Elizabeth Gil, Fordham Graduate School of Education