Making Connections:
A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia
Edited by David Law & Nora Domínguez
As the third book in the Empower Teaching Open Access Book Series, Making Connections is a comprehensive resource for those in academia who want to understand how to develop, implement, evaluate, sustain, and fund mentorship at their respective universities. Making Connections is a unique and needed contribution to the mentoring field, and is a collaborative institutional effort between Utah State University’s (USU) Empowering Teaching Open Access Book Series and the University of New Mexico (UNM) Mentoring Institute.
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This handbook is a must-read for anyone who wants to design an effective mentoring initiative in academia. The contributors include scholars and practitioners who have examined the challenges of creating high quality mentoring experiences in highly complex settings.
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Law, D. & Dominguez, N. (Eds.) (2023). Making connections: A handbook for effective formal mentoring programs in academia. Utah State University. https://doi.org/10.26079/ff55-d7a0
Written and edited by experts in the field and informed by research and first-hand experience of leading mentoring programs in academia, I expect that [Making Connections] will have a profound positive impact on and in universities in the United States and worldwide.
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I have witnessed the profound impact of mentoring on the retention and achievement of our valued students, faculty, and staff...I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to improve retention rates and enhance professional development within their university community.
About Empower Teaching Open-Access Series
The Empower Teaching Open-Access Book Series features a variety of peer-reviewed books focused broadly on the multi-disciplinary work of teaching in higher education. Books in the series align with the mission of the Center for Empowering Teaching Excellence (ETE) to bolster the culture of teaching excellence for students, staff, faculty and administrators. The books in this series share insightful and innovative perspectives on teaching and learning, and through a partnership with USU Libraries the books are offered in an online and open-access format to amplify the voices of authors and contributors in the series.