Cultivating Mentors: Sharing Wisdom in Christian Higher Education
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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 vocations—and 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:
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.
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- Directs educators to practical tools for cultivating faith and vocational discernment
- Illustrates multiple ways to establish a healthy ecosystem for relational mentoring in an increasingly diverse academic landscape
- Aimed especially at leaders of Christian higher education who in an age of digitization and diversity are recruiting the next generation of teacher-scholars for their schools
- The Need to Rediscover: Mentoring as a Crucial Formation Process
- Leading Integrated Lives: Navigating Personal and Professional Commitments Through Mentorship
- Call and Response: Mentoring for Organizational Fit and Flourishing
- Diversity and Community: Mentoring Toward a New We
- Boomers to Zoomers: Mentoring Toward Human Centeredness in Our Work
- Intentional Influence: Relevant Habits and Practices We Must Cultivate in Today's Emerging Generation
- Who Will Lead Us? A Life Cycle Approach to Academic Mentorship
Cultivating Mentors illustrates multiple ways to establish a healthy ecosystem for relational mentoring in an increasingly diverse academic landscape. With a focus on faculty flourishing and student success in the contexts of rapidly changing academic and professional environments, this timely volume directs educators to practical tools for cultivating faith and vocational discernment in tandem with fostering a powerful sense of faith-based community on their university campuses.
—Karen A. Lee, provost and professor of English at Wheaton College
This book is aimed especially at leaders of Christian higher education who in an age of digitization and diversity are recruiting the next generation of teacher-scholars for their schools. The contributors ground their assessment in a theology of vocation, they are alert to the changing culture of contemporary young adults, and they offer hard-won wisdom concerning the institutional dynamics of colleges and universities. Careful attention to theory seasoned by numerous specific examples make for unusually compelling reading.
—Mark A. Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
The editors of Cultivating Mentors have enlisted an outstanding group of experienced Christian educators who highlight the challenges of the younger generation of Christians, in particular Millennials and Gen Z, as revealed in thousands of interviews conducted by the Barna Group. The authors provide specific proposals to administrators for providing helpful mentoring for junior faculty at Christian colleges.
—Edwin M. Yamauchi, professor of history emeritus, Miami University
The context for mentoring has changed enormously in recent years, and the roles of mentor and mentee now frequently oscillate. Cultivating Mentors explores this new terrain where generational differences and cultural diversities are taken seriously and where personal flourishing receives intensified attention. With insights from a multitude of organizational and generational perspectives, this volume will encourage fresh thinking across the full spectrum of institutional roles in Christian higher education.
—Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, authors of Scholarship and Christian Faith
- Title: Cultivating Mentors: Sharing Wisdom in Christian Higher Education
- Authors: Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, Christopher J. Devers
- Publisher: IVP Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 169
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Career development; Christian universities and colleges; Mentoring in education; Universities and colleges › Faculty
- ISBNs: 9781514002544, 9781514002520, 9781514002537, 151400254, 1514002523, 1514002531, 151400254X
- Resource ID: LLS:CLTVTNGMNTRDCTN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-12T01:46:28Z