Does adviser mentoring add value? A longitudinal study of mentoring and doctoral student outcomes

This study of the impact of doctoral adviser mentoring on student outcomes was undertaken in response to earlier research that found (a) students with greater incoming potential received more adviser mentoring, and (b) adviser mentoring did not significantly contribute to important student outcomes, including research productivity [Green, S. G., and Bauer, T. N. (1995). Personnel Psychology 48(3): 537–561]. In this longitudinal study spanning 5 1/2 years, the effect of mentorship on the research productivity, career commitment, and self-efficacy of Ph.D. students in the ‘hard’ sciences was assessed, while controlling for indicators of ability and attitudes at program entry. Positive benefits of mentoring were found for subsequent productivity and self-efficacy. Mentoring was not significantly associated with commitment to a research career.     

Efficiency in the community college sector: stochastic frontier analysis

This paper estimates technical efficiency scores across the community college sector in the United States. Using stochastic frontier analysis and data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System for 2003–2010, we estimate efficiency scores for 950 community colleges and perform a series of sensitivity tests to check for robustness. We find that community colleges have become more efficient over time, but no evidence of economies of scale. We also find significant variation in efficiency across colleges, with only part of this variation explained by exogenous differences by state and across student characteristics.     

Trust-building in the mentoring of students of color

Trust is a vital component of mentoring, particularly when protégés are people of color who have experienced racism and discrimination. My findings are part of a larger study that culminated in the formulation of a theory of multicultural mentoring. Trust was found to be foundational for successful multicultural mentoring relationships. In my study of how mentors establish trust with graduate protégés of color, the following mentor practices were found to promote trust: listening, maintaining excellent communication, having a holistic understanding of the protégé, self-disclosing, using humor, being willing to discuss race and culture, acknowledging mistakes, and behaving with integrity. The mentors not only worked to establish interpersonal trust, they also attended to institutional and sociocultural trust concerns that impacted their protégés. Considerable time, skill, commitment, and effort are required for mentors to establish trust with protégés of color. Recommendations for the provision of mentor support are provided.     

浅析高校学生社区的境外生管理工作

如何提高境外生的学生社区工作成效一直是侨校面临的一个重要难题,本文从存在的基本问题入手,构建境外生社区管理工作基本原则,从多角度对高校学生社区的境外生管理工作进行了研究,探析提高境外生学生社区教育管理工作实效性的具体措施,以期对今后的发展华文教育有所裨益。     

社区教育与社区学院建设的若干思考

我国社区教育正由大城市向县级城市及其农村延伸。在社区教育发展过程中,对社区教育的内涵和功能特点,社区学院的办学职能等尚有不同的认识。文章总结归纳了社区教育的四个功能特点,对基层干部群众提出的发展社区教育的一些模糊、片面认识,以及对社区学院的办学职能提出了一些看法,同时,对以基层电大为基础创办社区学院提出了若干对策建议。     

The impact of community college attendance on baccalaureate attainment

Community colleges are seen as contradictory institutions. Supporters contend that community colleges increase baccalaureate attainment by providing access to higher education for students who would otherwise not attend college, while critics argue that these institutions decrease baccalaureate attainment for students who would otherwise attend a 4-year institution. Using the National Education Longitudinal Study, this article advances the literature on the impact of community colleges on baccalaureate attainment by estimating new models that allow controlling for pathways of enrollment while using different measures of educational expectations and correcting for college choice. Findings suggest that community colleges significantly reduce the probability of attaining a bachelor’s degree, as compared to 4-year institutions, an effect that remains after having taken into account non-traditional enrollment pathways, educational expectations, and self-selection into 2-year and 4-year institutions.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the November 2004 Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.     

Emeriti faculty as mentors: the benefits and rewards of mentoring the next generation

ABSTRACT

This holistic single-case study reports on the benefits mentors derived from participating in the Increasing Minority Presence within Academia through Continuous Training (IMPACT) mentoring program. The IMPACT program was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office for Broadening Participation in Engineering 15–7680 (awards #1542728 and #1542524). In this program, emeriti faculty were matched with underrepresented minority faculty in the engineering professoriate for career-focused mentorship. The conceptual framework of the Benefits of Being a Mentor grounded this study. Findings indicate mentors appreciate the opportunity to give back and remain engaged in the field, to relive past academic career experiences, and to support the next generation of engineering professors while adjusting to retirement. These findings aligned with the conceptual framework on three factors: rewarding experience, improved job performance, and generativity. Implications for administrators and faculty, as well as additional research areas, are discussed.     

高校教务员队伍建设的研究

教务员队伍是高校教学管理队伍中的核心力量,是直接奋战在管理一线的主力军,承担着高校教学管理运行过程中的中心工作。作者针对目前国内高校教务员队伍的基本现状,结合自身的工作实际展开分析,提出加强高校教务员队伍建设的几点可行性建议。     

Assessing the impact of a program designed to develop sustainability leadership amongst staff members in higher education institutes: a case study from a community of practice perspective

This study focuses on the impact of a sustainability leadership development program (SLDP) designed to develop staff members as leaders who encourage sustainability practices within institutions of higher education (IHE). Using the framework of community of practice (CoP), we explored the program’s contribution by interviewing 16 staff members who had attended the program. At the individual level, we found that the SLDP provided participants with opportunities to learn from and with other members of the CoP and to engage them in debate about the various meanings of ‘sustainability’, increasing their environmental awareness and their environmental involvement within the IHE’s community. At the institutional level, the SLDP disseminated the college’s socio-environmental mission statement, increased its administration’s commitment and involvement, served as a platform for addressing local socio-environmental problems and initiated an Education-for-Sustainability (EfS) activists’ network. However, the participants indicated that the SLDP had limited impact on the environmentalism of other staff members and that the on-going mentoring and support from the college administration was insufficient. This study highlights the importance of such EfS professional programs to the development of both staff members and entire institutions as sustainability leaders. It also suggests ways to increase staff involvement in institutional EfS discourse.     

Striving for contribution: the five Cs and positive effects of cross-age peer mentoring

This article explores the relationship between cross-age peer mentoring and positive life outcomes as defined by the Five Cs: competence, character, confidence, connection, and compassion. Qualified high school juniors and seniors were randomly assigned groups of 4–5 freshmen to mentor through the challenges of transitioning to secondary school. Through a qualitative interview process, 12 former mentors discuss the benefits they have experienced in their lives as college students or productive members of the workforce, ranging from 1–4 years removed from the experience. All mentors found some value to the program as outlined by the Five Cs.     

高校教职工考核工作的实践与思考

高校教职工的考核工作是高校人力资源管理的重要内容。做好高校教职工的考核工作,首先要提高对考核工作的认识;其次制定岗位工作标准,采取定性和定量考核相结合的办法,既注重年度考核,又要加强平时考核和任期考核;最后要充分发挥高校教职工考核的激励功能。     

The role of social community and individual differences in minority mentoring programs

Researchers have examined various outcomes of undergraduate minority mentoring programs. However, there is a significant gap in research about how program members with different demographic backgrounds may not have the same experiences or outcomes as other members despite being subject to the same program elements. To address these gaps, we employed a social community framework to examine the differences across the perceptions of connectedness to a social community and participant outcomes of members of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Merit Program (MP) for Emerging Scholars. An ANOVA was performed for a study sample of n = 179 current and past MP participants. Results indicated a need to: (a) find ways to translate experiences to lower performing groups, (b) identify other approaches to build resilience and encourage connections and engagement in communities of practice, and (c) explicitly educate all participants in the importance of social community in their professional development.     

The effect of local labor market conditions in the 1990s on the likelihood of community college students’ persistence and attainment

This study analyzes the influence of local labor market conditions on the year-to-year persistence and attainment decisions of a sample of traditional-aged students who attended community colleges during the 1990s. The findings suggest that the enrollment and attainment decisions of these first-time community college students were not made purely as a response to changes in tuition costs, but rather the result of a more interconnected process whereby changes in tuition, local labor market conditions, and the relative change in both are considered. For those who are sensitive to these relative costs, the likelihood of dropping out is increased. Of those who remained enrolled, the evidence suggests that an increase in tuition appears to provide an incentive or extra motivation to finish a degree, especially an associate’s degree. This finding does not support the raising of in-state tuition to improve student outcomes; rather it draws attention to the complexity involved in student persistence and attainment decision-making.     

论高校教师生活的“群落、寄附”现象

生存空间对人的发展具有重要影响,高校教师生活中的"群落、寄附"现象比较普遍."群落、寄附"现象对高校教师的发展与职责履行、对高校学生的发展以及对高校的校园文化建设,既有有利的影响,也有不利的影响,深入研究该现象的利弊,有利于扬利抑弊.     

高校学生党员教育中存在的主要问题与对策

大学生党员的教育工作是高校党建和思想政治工作的重要组成部分,在认真抓好发展学生党员工作的同时,必须重视加强大学生党员的教育工作。本文通过对高校学生党员教育的现状进行必要性的分析,结合高校学生党建工作的特殊性,探讨了党员教育的有效方法和途径。     

"先进性"教育与大学生党建工作的新发展

学生党建工作是高校党建工作的重要环节,高校学生党建工作实质上就是保持、发扬学生党员的先进性.本文结合医学学生党建工作的实际,分析了当前加大高校学生党建的必要性,并对如何结合"保持共产党员先进性"教育活动,创新高校学生党建工作的思路、形式、内容和机制,整体提升高校学生党建工作水平和质量等问题进行探讨.     

“先进性”教育与大学生党建工作的新发展

学生党建工作是高校党建工作的重要环节,高校学生党建工作实质上就是保持、发扬学生党员的先进性。本文结合医学学生党建工作的实际,分析了当前加大高校学生党建的必要性,并对如何结合“保持共产党员先进性”教育活动,创新高校学生党建工作的思路、形式、内容和机制,整体提升高校学生党建工作水平和质量等问题进行探讨。     

Teacher training for social responsibility: a new mentoring role in the training of community teachers

ABSTRACT

Our study is focused on the field-experience of a unique ideological group. The prospective teachers are community activists who are dedicated to meeting the social needs of communities through education, mainly in the periphery and in weakened populations. Their vision is to become community teachers. We focused on a new mentoring role, which was created in order to meet the special needs of this group. The new mentors are members of the same movement as the prospective community teachers, share their ideology and dilemmas, and gain their trust. The findings show that this role is necessary and meaningful. We discuss different aspects of the role of the new mentors, including aspects of informal mentoring, and how it can be applied in other teacher-training models. Our findings may help in providing ideas for choosing mentors with special characteristics for special students.     

完善高校学生社团管理机制的探索

从高校学生社团的作用入手,通过对我国高校学生社团现状的分析,探索改进我国高校学生社团管理机制的新思路,为进一步丰富高校学生社团活动,完善高校学生社团管理,促进学生社团健康发展,提供一些有益的帮助。     

组建社区教育学院构建终身教育体系促进社区和谐发展

社区教育是不同于普通学校教育和成人教育的新的教育形式,社区教育学院是由当地政府举办的,集公益性、综合性、社区性于一体的多功能的区域性教育培训中心,在促进社区建设和发展,在构建国民终身教育体系中具有不可替代的作用。组建社区教育学院,实施终身教育,以促进社区的和谐发展意义重大。