Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2017

Journal Title

The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching

Volume Number

2

Issue Number

Special Issue 10 (Conference Proceedings)

Version

Publisher PDF: the final published version of the article, with professional formatting and typesetting

Abstract

Previous studies of the mentoring experiences of black graduate students and recent PhD’s have reported that this population of early career academics has limited access to mentors, and, when they do, white males provide more career-enhancing supports than mentors of other gender and racial/ethnic groups. These studies have relied on data collected from small subsamples, including those of prestigious scholarship recipients. This article argues that the experiences of prestigious scholarship recipients are not representative of the mentoring experiences of the vast majority of black graduate students and junior faculty in Sociology. The Survey of the Characteristics and Dimensions of Mentoring: An Investigation of the Mentoring Experiences of African American Graduate Students in Departments of Sociology ills that gap in the literature by providing data on the mentoring experiences of the majority of emerging academics in Sociology. The representative sample of non-randomly sampled African American graduate students and recent doctoral recipients found that Black males served as mentors to the majority of these emerging scholars. Ninety-seven percent of study participants reported having at least 1 mentor and 74% reporting having two or more mentors. Black males overwhelmingly served as primary, secondary, and tertiary mentors to this emerging group of scholars. Without the Black male mentors, many of these African American graduate students and early career academics would not be mentored.

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