Variety is the spice of mentoring life: a UK-US partnership highlights opportunities and benefits

Peer-to-peer academic mentoring has the potential to contribute to retention and progression goals as programmes benefit mentors, mentees, and staff. Although there are necessarily common elements, programmes that include academic mentoring vary in their focus and structure. Each programme must also...

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Autores principales: Kirk Skoglund, Luke Millard, Alisha Francis, Luke Nagle, Stuart Brand
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Publicado: Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) 2015
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ff7532c5215345ac8f5f7135bfe05eee2021-11-29T14:03:17ZVariety is the spice of mentoring life: a UK-US partnership highlights opportunities and benefits10.47408/jldhe.v0i0.3371759-667Xhttps://doaj.org/article/ff7532c5215345ac8f5f7135bfe05eee2015-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://repl.gianfj.com/index.php/jldhe/article/view/337https://doaj.org/toc/1759-667XPeer-to-peer academic mentoring has the potential to contribute to retention and progression goals as programmes benefit mentors, mentees, and staff. Although there are necessarily common elements, programmes that include academic mentoring vary in their focus and structure. Each programme must also be deliberately designed to address the unique character of individual institutions. Programmes at two very different institutions ââ¬â one in a rural town in the United States and one in a metropolis in the United Kingdom ââ¬â provide models for applying peer mentoring across a variety of contexts. This discussion also illustrates the opportunities presented by institutional partnerships.Kirk SkoglundLuke MillardAlisha FrancisLuke NagleStuart BrandAssociation for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE)articleacademic mentoringinstitutional collaborationpeer supportretention and successTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning Development in Higher Education (2015)
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topic academic mentoring
institutional collaboration
peer support
retention and success
Theory and practice of education
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institutional collaboration
peer support
retention and success
Theory and practice of education
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Luke Millard
Alisha Francis
Luke Nagle
Stuart Brand
Variety is the spice of mentoring life: a UK-US partnership highlights opportunities and benefits
description Peer-to-peer academic mentoring has the potential to contribute to retention and progression goals as programmes benefit mentors, mentees, and staff. Although there are necessarily common elements, programmes that include academic mentoring vary in their focus and structure. Each programme must also be deliberately designed to address the unique character of individual institutions. Programmes at two very different institutions ââ¬â one in a rural town in the United States and one in a metropolis in the United Kingdom ââ¬â provide models for applying peer mentoring across a variety of contexts. This discussion also illustrates the opportunities presented by institutional partnerships.
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Luke Millard
Alisha Francis
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title Variety is the spice of mentoring life: a UK-US partnership highlights opportunities and benefits
title_short Variety is the spice of mentoring life: a UK-US partnership highlights opportunities and benefits
title_full Variety is the spice of mentoring life: a UK-US partnership highlights opportunities and benefits
title_fullStr Variety is the spice of mentoring life: a UK-US partnership highlights opportunities and benefits
title_full_unstemmed Variety is the spice of mentoring life: a UK-US partnership highlights opportunities and benefits
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