Graduate and Professional Student Sponsorship Across Racial and Gender Identities
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Abstract
This chapter examines sponsorship of graduate and professional students from underrepresented (race and gender) identities. Sponsorship emerged from mentoring and socialization scholarship as a complement that focuses primarily on advancing the protégé's career by leveraging the networks and influence of the mentor. Sponsorship not only involves positively socializing the protégé to the organization but also includes "promoting" opportunities for the protégé's professional development and growth. Mentoring is the process whereby a more experienced colleague (mentor - faculty member) socializes a junior colleague (protégé - graduate student) to the cultural norms of an organization. Scholars contend mentoring should be a bi-directional/reciprocal process, but it often exists as a one-directional socialization process in the academy. Additionally, the chapter examines the student-faculty sponsorship of the authors through a collaborative autoethnographic dialog.
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Published in Promoting Meaningful Student Faculty Experiences in Graduate Education, 2024, pages 109-130.
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© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Eugene T. Parker, III and Teniell L. Trolian; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Eugene T. Parker, III and Teniell L. Trolian to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
APA Citation
McCoy, D. L., Rutan, M. N., & Cooper, A. R. (2024). Graduate and professional student sponsorship across racial and gender identities. In E. T. Parker III & T. L. Trolian (Eds.), Promoting meaningful student–faculty experiences in graduate education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296508-8