Guiding the way: Mentoring graduate students and junior faculty for sustainable academic careers

SAGE Open

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Montgomery, Beronda L ^a   Dodson, Jualynne E ^a   Johnson, Sonya M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic populations of color; Graduate students; Junior faculty; Mentoring; Post doctoral scientists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925331179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244014558043     Document Type: Article

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