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Mentoring can be an effective strategy in improving retention of college students and faculty from fields where historical underrepresentation has occurred. This article reviews the benefits of mentoring in higher education, and identifies components of effective mentoring strategies that promote educational and career advancement. It illustrates how effective programs can be institutionalized and scaled through consortial and national collaborations. Traditional and alternative mentoring models are described through four successful programs designed to increase the academic and professional success of undergraduates, graduate students, and junior faculty. The article concludes with a set of general recommendations and caveats gleaned from the literature and programs reviewed.

This article discusses the design and practical applications of a relational data base system to monitor activities related to graduate education. The system was designed for a multi-user microcomputer in a graduate school of a large research university, and there is a discussion of the various technical and administrative/political problems which were encountered during the design process The following practical applications are also discussed: preparing informational reports and p r e jections, monitoring student status, assisting graduation services, preparing departmental profiles, and researching matters related to student recruitment and retention.In many universities, the graduate education enterprise involves an extensive administrative process, including recruitment, admissions, registration, and degree monitoring, as well as the promotion of scholarship and quality throughout the university. The need for computerization in this process has grown tremendously, especially in institutions that have graduate schools which administer many of these activities related to graduate education.Recently, one of the authors of this article published a study on the analysis of faculty and administrative support of a data base system to monitor graduate 91 0 1986, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.

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