Faculty mentoring programs: Reenvisioning rather than reinventing the wheel

Review of Educational Research

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 552-588

  Zellers, Darlene F ^a   Howard, Valerie M ^b   Barcic, Maureen A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Career development; Faculty; Higher education; Mentoring; Mentoring programs; Professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049148135     PISSN: 00346543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0034654308320966     Document Type: Review

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