Empowering the Faculty: Mentoring Redirected and Renewed. ERIC Digest.

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العنوان: Empowering the Faculty: Mentoring Redirected and Renewed. ERIC Digest.
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Luna, Gaye, Cullen, Deborah L., ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Washington, DC., George Washington Univ., Washington, DC. Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
الإتاحة: ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, One Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 630, Washington, DC 20036-1183.
تمت مراجعته من قبل الزملاء: N
Page Count: 4
تاريخ النشر: 1995
Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
نوع الوثيقة: ERIC Publications
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الواصفات: College Faculty, Empowerment, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Leadership, Master Teachers, Mentors, Minority Group Teachers, Program Development, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Improvement, Women Faculty
مستخلص: This digest discusses the use of faculty mentoring programs to empower faculty and ultimately benefit the institution and improve the quality of higher education. It refers to the literature on mentoring in terms of conceptual frameworks, mentoring arenas, and roles and functions of mentors and proteges. It briefly addresses the following aspects of mentoring: (1) the value of mentoring in the higher education setting; (2) the use of mentoring to empower college faculty; (3) the use of mentoring to develop faculty leadership skills; (4) the importance of fitting any mentoring program to the specific culture and environment of a given institution; (5) recommendations for institutions (such as providing recognition to those who participate and providing support through institutional resources; and (6) the need for research to identify successful programs and examine the specific benefits of mentoring of female and minority faculty members. (Contains six references.) (DB)
Entry Date: 1997
رقم الانضمام: ED399888
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC