Faculty Mentoring Tool Kit

Below are a selection of articles on faculty mentoring. Please note that most of these links will require you authenticate with your University of Michigan credentials in order to access the full text. 

• Desai, Ashmi, and Hoa N. Nguyen. "Your Life Jacket in Academia: Brown Women of Color Faculty Peer Mentoring for Writing, Publishing, and Surviving." The Urban Review, 2025
• Mirabelli, Joseph, et al. "“Help being Passed from One Person to the Next”: Factors Defining the Development, Challenges, and Successes of Faculty Peer Mentoring Relationships during Mentee Transitions to Engineering Education Research." Studies in Engineering Education, vol. 6, no. 1, 2025, pp. 22-47

• Blackburn, A.G. Faculty Mentoring: Experiences with and Considerations for a College-Based Model. American Journal of  Criminal Justice 48, 887–898 (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s12103-023-09728-6
• Detsky, A.S., & Baerlocher, M.O. (2007). Academic mentoring - how to give it and how to get it. JAMA 297(19), 2134-2136. DOI: 10.1001/jama.297.19.2134
• Fountain, J., & Newcomer, K. E. (2016). Developing and Sustaining Effective Faculty Mentoring Programs. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 22(4), 483–506. doi.org/10.1080/15236803.2016.12002262
• Hammer, T., Trepal, H., & Speedlin, S. (2014). Five Relational Strategies for Mentoring Female Faculty. Adultspan Journal, 13(1), 4–14. doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-0029.2014.00022.x
• Lumpkin, A. (2011). A Model for Mentoring University Faculty. The Educational Forum, 75(4), 357–368. doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2011.602466
• Moreau-Johnson, F., Quirion, J., & Giles, A. (2023). Mentoring faculty: impact, dyads vs. groups, and gender. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 31(4), 532–551. doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2023.2225394
• Ocobock, C., Niclou, A., Loewen, T., Arslanian, K., Gibson, R., & Valeggia, C. (2022). Demystifying mentorship: Tips for successfully navigating the mentor–mentee journey. American Journal of Human Biology, 34(S1), e23690. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23690
• Sarabipour, S., Hainer, S.J., Arslan, F.N., de Winde, C.M., Furlong, E., Bielczyk, N., Jadavji, N.M., Shah, A.P. and Davla, S. (2022), Building and sustaining mentor interactions as a mentee. FEBS J, 289: 1374-1384. DOI: 10.1111/febs.15823
• Sarabipour, S., Macklin, P. & Niemi, N.M. Improving academic mentorship practices (Comment). Natural Human Behavior (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01910-y

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Faculty Mentoring  - Models and Effective Practice (Hanover Research, 2014)