Many colleges and universities informally highlight the value of mentoring among academic professionals. Yet scholars often lack clear definitions, goals, practices, and commitments that help them actually reap the benefits mentoring offers. As new faculty members from younger generations continue to face evolving challenges while also reshaping institutions, their ability to connect with more experienced mentors is critical to their vocationsand to the future of higher education. In Cultivating Mentors, a distinguished group of contributors explores the practice of mentoring in Christian higher education. Drawing on traditional theological understandings of the mentee-mentor relationship, they consider what goals should define such relationships and what practices make their cultivation possible among educators. With special attention to generational dynamics, they discuss how mentoring can help institutions navigate generational faculty transitions and cultivate rising leaders. Contributors include:
David Kinnaman Tim Clydesdale Margaret Diddams Edgardo Colón-Emeric Rebecca C. Hong Tim Elmore Beck A. Taylor Stacy A. Hammons
This book offers valuable insights and practical recommendations for faculty members, administrators, and policy makers. Whether pursuing their vocation in Christian or secular institutions, Christian scholars will benefit from the sharing of wisdom mapped out in Cultivating Mentors.
Foreword by Mark R. Schwehn
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Season of Peril?
Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, Christopher J. Devers
1 The Need to Rediscover: Mentoring as a Crucial Formation Process
David Kinnaman
2 Leading Integrated Lives: Navigating Personal and Professional Commitments
Through Mentorship
Tim Clydesdale
3 Call and Response: Mentoring for Organizational Fit and Flourishing
Margaret Diddams
4 Diversity and Community: Mentoring Toward a New We
Edgardo Colón-Emeric
5 Boomers to Zoomers: Mentoring Toward Human Centeredness in Our Work
Rebecca C. Hong
6 Intentional Influence: Relevant Practices and Habits We Must Cultivate in
Today's Emerging Generation
Tim Elmore
7 Who Will Lead Us? A Life Cycle Approach to Academic Mentorship
Beck A. Taylor
Conclusion: A Season of Promise?
Stacy A. Hammons
Contributors
Index
Todd C. Ream is professor of higher education at Taylor University, publisher of Christian Scholar's Review, and a senior fellow with the Lumen Research Institute. Jerry Pattengale is university professor at Indiana Wesleyan University, codirector of the Lumen Research Institute, and associate publisher for Christian Scholar's Review. Christopher J. Devers is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in the School of Education and a senior fellow with the Lumen Research Institute.
