ABSTRACT
This chapter presents four mentoring examples of professors Launch, Guide, Collegial, and Start to show what great mentors do and how developmental relationships can move steadily along the mentoring continuum. After identifying his student's potential, Dr. Launch had to take initiative to engage his undergraduate advisee, help him identify a career dream, and explore his student's unique experience as an ethnic minority. Dr. Guide modeled thoughtful selectivity in order to preserve her resources for mentees to whom she had committed and self-awareness of her own ambivalence and competitiveness in the relationship. Dr. Collegial was particularly skilled with helping her postdoctoral fellow transition from neophyte to professional colleague, both in his own self-perception and in the context of their relationship. Dr. Start offered crucial insider information, direct assistance in the nuts and bolts of beginning an academic career, protection from hostile peers, and endorsement of a Mentoring Constellation, and he encouraged his mentee to seek out a host of career helpers.
