Canton, Marsha E., and James, David P. (1999).
Mentoring in Higher Education: Best Practices.
Pacifica, CA: Canton Associates.
This is a nifty, practical book. It draws quite literally from the workshop experiences of its authors to provide a resource for mentoring program start-up and continuing support. The workshop comes to the reader in this book, even to the point of color reproductions of PowerPoint slides.
Practicality is the emphasis here. An alternative title might be "The Book of Lists for Mentoring." Although there are brief expositions of the reasoning behind specific suggestions the book serves mainly as a shopping list of things to do, issues to resolve, goals to clarify. This is not an indictment, the authors are so thorough and so knowledgable about their subject that, having seen the book, it's hard to imagine setting up a mentoring program without it. In addition to the lists, there are sample forms, job descriptions, evaluations, etc. The one criticism I would raise; a fairly high cost per page ratio.
