The Effectiveness of the New Faculty Mentoring Program

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  • 大学における新任教員対象のメンタリングプログラムの効果
  • ダイガク ニ オケル シンニン キョウイン タイショウ ノ メンタリングプログラム ノ コウカ

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New faculty members might be uneasy and have questions about their competencies and career. They feel isolated and alone in the recent competitive academic profession market. The mentoring program is supporting the new faculty members through exchanges with experienced faculty members. This study clarifies the effectiveness of a new faculty mentoring program through the survey of 19 mentees and 20 mentors. The findings from the qualitative analysis of opinions of the mentees and mentors are summarized as follows. First, mentees receive wide benefits from the program. The benefits are categorized into seven components, support on teaching and research, support on life, support on career development, expanding networking, role modeling, reducing anxiety, fun to talking. This shows that the mentoring program have both career and psychosocial functions and includes elements of faculty development. Second, mentors also receive wide benefits from the program. The benefits are categorized into nine components, acquiring knowledge on research, understanding a different academic field, understanding circumstance of new faculty members, expanding networking, collaboration, reflection and renewal, gaining vitality, satisfaction on supporting, fun to talking. Third, the effectiveness of mentoring program is affected by academic fields of mentors and mentees, sexes of mentors and mentees, mutual hesitation.

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