David P. James

Mentoring in Higher Education: Best Practices Workbook David P. James

Mentoring Assists in Preparing Our Nation's Future Generations

The Mentoring in Higher Education: Best Practices Workbook consists of suggested exercises for all mentoring participants and includes protégé vignettes, faculty vignettes, and basic questions for starting and implementing a mentoring program. Each suggested exercise or question begins with a list of skills or proposed mentoring activities that program administrators, mentors and protégés can use as additional sources of training and professional development activities. In all cases, the exercises and questions are specifically designed to enhance the mentoring process.

The workbook also introduces practical approaches for designing, implementing and evaluating a planned mentor program. The case studies are designed to present real-life challenges and elicit a genuine discussion of tangible solutions. The activities are designed to assist mentors in unlocking students potential and nurture their educational aspirations.