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Mentors and Muses: New Strategies for Academic Success

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Mentoring programs in higher education institutions have met with mixed success. In response to the limitations inherent in the dominant approaches to mentoring, we present an example of a unusual mentoring program, the New Scholars Network (NSN). The NSN is a variant of traditional mentoring approaches, having evolved from mentoring into musing. Framed within a radical humanist philosophy, musing is a process of creating peer communities that facilitates connections between naturally developing relationships, shared power, and collective action. Through mentoring as musing new faculty have the potential to evolve as change agents in the institution, instead of assimilating into the existing system.

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Angelique, H., Kyle, K. & Taylor, E. Mentors and Muses: New Strategies for Academic Success. Innovative Higher Education 26, 195–209 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017968906264

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