A Framework for Faculty Mentoring in Higher Education

DERDC Associate Policy Scientist Steve Fifield has coauthored a paper on faculty-to-faculty mentoring in higher education with Pamela Lottero-Perdue, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences at Towson University. Lottero-Perdue is a former DERDC staff member and a graduate of UD.

 Their paper, “A Conceptual Framework for Higher Education Faculty Mentoring,” appears in the 2010 edition of To Improve the Academy: Resources of Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development. It synthesizes conceptions of faculty mentoring in recent research and practitioner reports and develops a framework that gives administrators, mentoring participants, and evaluators a variety of perspectives on mentoring to adapt to different situations.

 This work is based on the DERDC evaluation of the Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence project funded by the US National Institutes of Health.