Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia

This handbook describes all aspects of mentoring programs as a comprehensive resource for understanding how and why to develop, implement, evaluate, sustain, and fund mentorship programs in higher education.  In her first chapter (Ch 11), Dionne describes the program structures that promote mentees to be self-directed, how mentors can use autonomy supports and values-based pedagogies to activate mentee volition, and how relationship-based program structures set the stage for strong mentoring outcomes.In her second chapter (Ch 22), Dionne describes how and why autonomy-supportive instruction is embedded into all aspects of the mentoring program. Mentee-mentor pairs are highly engaged observers and practitioners of autonomy-supportive mentoring, teaching, and reflective practice conversations.