This book is for higher education faculty and staff who wish to deepen their approach to mentoring all students, but it is especially concerned with "outsider" students - those who come from groups that were long excluded from higher education, and who have been marginalized and minoritized by society and academia. Mentoring is difficult work for an abundance of reasons, and - given higher education's troubled history of exclusion, as well as a contemporary context fraught with social and power imbalances - it can be especially challenging when the mentorship takes place across dimensions of...

This book is for higher education faculty and staff who wish to deepen their approach to mentoring all students, but it is especially concerned with "outsider" students - those who come from groups that were long excluded from higher education, and who have been marginalized and minoritized by society and academia. Mentoring is difficult work for an abundance of reasons, and - given higher education's troubled history of exclusion, as well as a contemporary context fraught with social and power imbalances - it can be especially challenging when the mentorship takes place across dimensions of...