Faculty-graduate student mentoring relationships: Mentors' perceived roles and responsibilities

Higher Education

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 757-771

  Lechuga, Vicente M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Faculty; Graduate students; Higher education; Mentoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053565058     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9416-0     Document Type: Article

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