![]() “And it turns out that’s just not true.”Īs for graduate students, 60 to 70 percent report having a mentor ( Teaching of Psychology Naval Academy and author of three books and dozens of journal articles about mentoring. Brad Johnson, PhD, a professor of psychology at the U.S. “A lot of colleges and universities advertise with glossy brochures about how students have rich mentorships with faculty,” says W. Unfortunately, only a quarter of college graduates report having had any professor who cared about them, and fewer report having had a mentor, according to a large 2014 Gallup–Purdue University study. In academia, however, the term often gets watered down to refer to an advisor-someone who helps undergraduate students choose the right courses to graduate or oversees doctoral projects to completion.īut true mentors do much more, from serving as role models to helping incubate research projects to bringing protégés into a network of colleagues. In the intervening centuries, the word has come to mean someone who gives guidance, shares knowledge and imparts wisdom. In Homer’s “Odyssey,” the character Mentor serves as the trusted older counselor to Odysseus’s son, Telemachus.
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