Challenges and Strategies of Successful Mentoring: The Perspective of LEADS Scholars and Mentors from Minority Serving Institutions

Abstract

Mentoring continues to be a salient conversation in academia among junior and senior faculty and administrators. Mentors provide guidance and structure to junior faculty so that they can meet their academic and professional goals. Mentors also convey skills in balancing life and academic pursuits. Therefore, the purpose of this descriptive study was to provide additional insight from a training program called Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success (LEADS) regarding successful strategies and challenges of mentoring relating to lessons learned from the scholars and mentees’ perspective. The LEADS program provided multiple training platforms to increase skills and knowledge regarding research to promote expertise in grant writing and submission for funding opportunities among diverse scientists. These findings reinforce the knowledge about the value of a mentor in helping define the research pathway of their mentee and underscoring the importance of mentoring.

Challenges of International Trade and Government Governance from the Perspective of Economic Globalization

“…At the same time, economic globalization has also become an objective condition for trade development, which has greatly expanded the world in terms of capacity and structure. e development space of trade [4]. Since the first industrial revolution, the development of trade globalization and international trade activities has been accompanied by tremendous technological progress and new technological changes [5].…”

The impact of social unrest due to systemic racism on underrepresented post-doctoral fellows and early-career faculty

“…Having access to social support and specifically mentoring relationships has been shown to have a positive buffering effect especially among UR faculty and researchers. 20 This includes diverse types of mentoring relationships including peer-to-peer mentoring and various forms of group mentoring especially based on share affinity (e.g., functional area, background) or common social identity (e.g., race, gender, gender identity, culture, ethnicity). 21 The current results provide additional support from previous research showing a positive buffering effect of mentoring for the negative impact of both direct and ambient discrimination.…”

“…As shared by our participants, finding a support system is an invaluable resource but one that is not always available to them at their institutions. Having access to social support and specifically mentoring relationships has been shown to have a positive buffering effect especially among UR faculty and researchers [20]. This includes diverse types of mentoring relationships including peerto-peer mentoring and various forms of group mentoring especially based on shared affinity (e.g., functional area, background) or common social identity (e.g., race, gender, gender identity, culture, and ethnicity) [21].…”

Promoting Cancer Health Equity: A Qualitative Study of Mentee and Mentor Perspectives of a Training Program for Underrepresented Scholars in Cancer Health Disparities

“…The second cohort of the UHAND scholars completed their entire program online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior research asserts that the pandemic had a detrimental effect on mentoring [ 80 ]. This format caused certain difficulties for the UHAND program participants as it disrupted the work of some laboratories, limited opportunities to conduct community-based research, and also made networking more difficult.…”