"Take the Fifth": Mentoring students whose cultural communities were not historically structured into U.S. higher education

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 185-199

  Dodson, Jualynne E ^a   Montgomery, Beronda L ^a   Brown, Lesley J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic socialization; Diversity; Graduate education; Mentoring; Multiculturalism; Undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349304205     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10755-009-9099-y     Document Type: Article

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