Resources
Established Departmental Peer Mentoring Programs at U of L
**List compilation in progress: To have your department included on this list, please email Dr. Michelle Rodems.
Handbooks and Tips
Online Resources
Vanderbilt, “Mentoring Graduate Students”: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/mentoring-graduate-students/
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, “Mentoring Information for Graduate Students”: http://www.grad.illinois.edu/mentoring
University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, MORE: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/mentoring
A Brief Peer Mentoring Bibliography
Allen, T. D., Russell, J. E. A., and McManus, S. E. (1999). Newcomer socialization and stress: Formal peer relationships as a source of support. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 54(3), 453-70.
Asbee, S., and Woodall, S. (2000). Supporting access in distance education through student-student mentoring. Journal of Access and Credit Studies, 2(2), 220-32.
Budge, S. (2006). Peer mentoring in post-secondary education: Implications for research and practice. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 37(1), 73-87.
Fields, C.D. (1996). Black peer mentors, cooperative advocacy beneficial to morale. Black Issues in Higher Education, 13, 24.
Glass, N., and Walter, R. (2000). An experience of peer mentoring with student nurses: enhancement of personal and professional growth. The Journal of Nursing Education, 39(4), 155-60.
Good, J. M., Halpin, G. and Halpin, G. (2000). A promising prospect for minority retention: Students becoming peer mentors. Journal of Negro Educators, 69(4), 375-83.
Grant-Vallone, E. and Ensher, E. (2000). Effects of peer mentoring on types of mentor support, program satisfaction and graduate student stress: A dyadic perspective. Journal of College StudentDevelopment, 41(6), 637-42.
Cowie, H., and Wallace, P. (2000). Peer support in action: From bystanding to standing by. London: SAGE Publications.
Holbeche, L. (1996). Peer mentoring: the challenges and opportunities. Career Development International, 1(7), 24.
McDaugall, M., and Beattie, R. S. (1997). Peer mentoring at work: The nature and outcomes of non-hierarchical developmental relationships. Management Learning 28(4), 423-437.
McGuire, G.M and Reger, J. (2003). Feminist Co-Mentoring: A model for academic professional development. Feminist Formations 15(1), 54-72.
Select Mentoring Bibliography
Calabrese, R. L. and Smith, P. A. (2010). The doctoral student's advisor and mentor: Sage advice from the experts. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Chao, G. T. (1997). "Mentoring phases and outcomes." Journal of Vocational Behavior 51, 15-28.
de Janasz, S. C. and Sullivan, S. E. (2004). Multiple mentoring in academe: Developing the professional network. Journal of Vocational Behavior 64, 263–283.
Ehrenberg, R. G. and Kuh, C. V. (Eds.). (2009). Doctoral education and the faculty of the future. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Fischer, B. A. and Zigmond, M. J. (1998). Survival skills for graduate school and beyond. New Directions For Higher Education, 101, 29-40.
Golde, C. M. (1998) Beginning graduate school: Explaining first-year doctoral attrition. New Directions For Higher Education, 101, 55-64.
Golde, C. M. and Dore, T. M. (Eds.). (2001). At Cross Purposes: What the Experiences of Today’s Doctoral Students Reveal About Doctoral Education. Pew Charitable Trusts, 2001.
Golde, C.M. et al. (2009). Advocating apprenticeship and intellectual community: Lessons from the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. In Ehrenberg, R. G. and Kuh, C. V. (Eds.), Doctoral education and the faculty of the future (pp. 53-65). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Golde, C. M. and Walker, G. E. (Eds). (2006). Envisioning the future of doctoral education : Preparing stewards of the discipline. Carnegie essays on the doctorate. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Johnson, W. B. and Huwe, J. M. (2002). Toward a typology of mentorship dysfunction in graduate school. Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training, 39(1), 44–55.
Kram, K. E. (1985). Mentoring at work: Developmental relationships in organizational life. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company.
Lovitts, B. E. and Nelson, C. (2000). The hidden crisis in graduate education: Attrition from Ph.D. programs. Academe Online, n.p.
Lyons, W. et al. (1990). "The Mentor in Graduate Education." Studies in Higher Education, 15(3), 277-285.
Malenchek Egan, J. (1989). Graduate school and the self: A theoretical view of some negative effects of professional socialization. Teaching Sociology, 17(2), 200-207.
Mallinckrodt, B. and Leong, F. T. (1992). Social support in academic programs and family environments: Sex differences and the role conflicts for graduate students. Journal of Counseling & Development, 70, 716-723.
National Academy of Sciences. (1997). Adviser, teacher, role model, friend: On being a mentor to students in science and engineering. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Nerad, M. (2009). Confronting common assumptions: Designing future-oriented doctoral education. In Ehrenberg, R. G. and Kuh, C. V. (Eds.), Doctoral education and the faculty of the future (pp. 80-89). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
You can find a full bibliography of mentoring-related topics by category here.