Mentoring Matters: Racial Ethnic Minority Undergraduates’ Cultural Fit, Mentorship, and College and Life Satisfaction

Improving Mentoring in Higher Education in Undergraduate Education and Exploring Implications for Online Learning

“…In several studies, effective mentor role models positively affected the how the students viewed mentoring (Bear & Jones, 2017;Castellanos et al, 2016;Smith-Ruig, 2014). The mentor role model also positively influenced how the student viewed the higher education institution or the sponsoring organization of the mentor (Allen & Lester, 2012;Castellanos et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2011;Poor & Brown, 2013). This positive influence can encourage student persistence and retention in education or may point a student towards a company or career where the mentor has affiliation.…”

“…Página 4 de 25 Hu & Ma, 2010;Liu, Xu, & Weitz, 2011) to mentor quality assessment (Bowser, Hux, McBride, Nichols, & Nichols, 2014;Shaffer, Zalewski, & Leveille, 2010) to how mentoring is affected by demographic and cultural issues (Castellanos, Gloria, Besson, & Harvey, 2016;Cox, Yang, & Dicke-Bohmann, 2014;Villaseñor, Reyes, & Muñoz, 2013) they are unlikely to be unified in a theoretical position in the near future. Another theoretical framework are the following mentoring domains cited by Nora and Crisp (2007):…”

“…Formal mentoring programs are generally not standardized in goals and objectives, so it is difficult to categorize them or accurately compare them (Ehrich et al, 2004;Gershenfeld, 2014;Jacobi, 1991;Nora & Crisp, 2007). Since many mentoring programs assist specialty groups (a certain demographic or particular field), they may also have unique characteristics that are more challenging to generalize to a less-specialized mentoring programs (Butz, Spencer, Thayer-Hart, Cabrera, & Byars-Winston, 2018;Castellanos et al, 2016;Putsche et al, 2008;Shultz, Colton, & Colton, 2001). Also, while many mentoring programs are assumed to lead to improved student outcomes, these programs lack evaluations to show how the program works (Ehrich et al, 2004;Gershenfeld, 2014;Jacobi, 1991;Rees Lewis, Easterday, Harburg, Gerber, & Riesbeck, 2018).…”

“…Mentors need to convey why the mentoring program activities are valuable to student learning. Mentors may need diversity and cultural training to improve understanding of issues facing minority students (Butz et al, 2018;Castellanos et al, 2016;Dahlvig, 2010). Mentors also need training in how to best assist students in career planning (Renn et al, 2014).…”

Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Undergraduate Research Labs

“…Previous work has found that mentoring can be particularly vital to maintaining persistence toward a degree for African American students (Freeman, 1999; Dodson et al, 2009; Blackwell and Pinder, 2014). Notably, African-American students reported higher satisfaction with research-focused faculty support than other types of mentoring (Ishiyama, 2007; Strayhorn and Saddler, 2009; Kendricks et al, 2013; Castellanos et al, 2016).…”