December 10, 2024Mentoring in a Constellation: Supervisors and Mentors of Student Employeesby Jessie L. Moore, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, and Tim PeeplesIn our 2020 institutional survey on mentoring, fourth-year students identified on-campus student employment as the fifth most common experience that prepared them to connect with potential mentors. Supervisors of student employees offer a dynamic example of meaningful relationships that can…
November 12, 2024Conceptualizing Mentoring Constellations in Study Abroad: Mentors’ Perspectivesby Maureen Vandermaas-PeelerRecently I had the opportunity to think about mentoring in the context of a semester study abroad program with undergraduate research (UR) mentors working with DIS, Study Abroad in Scandinavia. Before talking with the mentors, I had asked their students…
October 29, 2024Conceptualizing Mentoring Constellations in Study Abroad: Students’ Perspectivesby Maureen Vandermaas-PeelerWhat kind of development and/or support do your mentors provide? It was necessary at some point to figure out how the knowledge I was obtaining at university could be applied. Therefore … I worked at a biotech company where I…
September 17, 2024Mentoring Constellations in Global Contextsby Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Jessie L. Moore, and Tim PeeplesRecent scholarship emphasizes the essential role of mentoring to support student engagement in undergraduate research (UR) and global learning and highlights the potential of blending these high-impact practices (HIPs) for enhanced learning and relationship-building (Allocco et al. 2022; Whitehead et…
August 6, 2024Mapping Mentoring Relationships and Constellationsby Tim Peeples, Jessie L. Moore, and Maureen Vandermaas-PeelerAs we explored in a previous post, if we take mentoring relationships seriously, as recent mentoring scholarship compels us to, our orientation shifts. It calls on us to understand mentors and mentoring – those sets of meaningful relationships – within…
July 18, 2024Taking (Mentoring) Relationships Seriouslyby Tim Peeples, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, and Jessie L. MooreAs we have earlier explored, recent mentoring scholarship argues that our definitions of mentoring should move away from role-based orientations towards a relational-orientation that defines mentoring “in terms of the character and quality of the relationship and in terms of…
July 2, 2024Defining Mentoring: Towards Mentoring Constellationsby Tim Peeples, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, and Jessie L. MooreAs scholarship on mentoring moved away from roles and actions towards processes and relationship development, definitions of mentoring have developed greater commonality not only around a shared focus on relationships, but also a shared focus on the general functions and…
June 18, 2024Defining Mentoring and/as Mentoring Relationshipsby Tim Peeples, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, and Jessie L. MooreIf mentoring matters, what is meant by mentoring, and what does high-quality mentoring entail? Despite over four decades of research on mentoring, there is no universally accepted definition (Mullen and Klimaitis 2021). Ubiquitous use of the term has not only…
