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Provost’s Department Chairs LeadershipProgram 
Mentoring for Success:The Role of the Department Chair 
 
Becky L. Yust, Professor and HeadDepartment of Design, Housing, andApparel [DHA]August 20, 2009
 
Topics to be covered:
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Definitions of mentoring
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Research on mentoring:
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Research-productive departments (Carol Bland et al.)
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Mentoring of junior faculty at the UM (President’sEmerging Leadership program project, Douah etal.)
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Additional research (Girves et al.; Johnson et al.)
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Mentoring in Design, Housing, and Apparel:
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Why we mentor
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Why we changed our mentor process and how we doin now
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Impacts of mentoring
 
Origination of mentoring
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In Homer’s
The Odyssey 
, when Odysseusgoes off to the Trojan War, he asksMentor to serve as the tutor for his son, Telemachus
(as described in Bland et al., p. 64).
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In 1699, François Fénelon used the term inthe book,
Les Aventures de Telemaque
. The lead character is Mentor
(Roberts as citedin Wikipedia)
 
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