“From Mentor to Mentoring Networks: Mentoring in the New Academy”

The article discusses the emerging models of mentoring as a vital contribution to a successful academic career. Mentoring has been defined as one-to-one relationship win which an experienced faculty member guides and supports the career development of early-career faculty member and research on faculty development. The article highlights the faculty-development resources which were published since 2000 and offers fresh models, concepts and thinking on mentoring in higher education. The resources provides new conceptualizations of mentoring, recent studies on mentoring, faculty-development programs and practices, and issues on gender and race.