ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses everyone involved in the mentoring process. It provides guidance to mentors on how to start, conduct, and conclude a mentoring relationship, and on the characteristics needed to establish a good relationship with mentees. The book focuses on the one-on-one mentoring relationship, whether it is conducted within a new faculty member’s depart-ment or through a university-wide program. It offers guidelines for setting up, planning, and conducting group mentoring. The book also focuses on how junior faculty members can maximize the potential benefits of a mentoring relationship. It identifies guidelines for selecting an ideal senior faculty mentor, along with the advantages of having a mentor within and outside one’s department, including mentors for different aspects of one’s academic life. The book also offers guidelines to department chairs/heads on how to set up and support faculty mentoring within their department.
