Word: mentoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harper, one of four new professors in the recently rejuvenated Afro-American Studies Department, has never actually been a student or teacher at Harvard. But nonetheless he is being reunited with his old mentor and dissertation advisor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., who last spring accepted an offer to chair the Afro-Am Department...
...have a theory that children of alcoholics make brilliant mimics, because reality and identity for them are unstable, subject to sudden disappearances and weird transformations. They are constantly auditioning nuanced identities in hopes of pleasing insanely unpredictable parents. At the kitchen table now, Bly becomes his spiritual and poetic mentor, William Butler Yeats, going trancey and reciting The Lake Isle of Innisfree in a high Irish singsong, tone-deaf Yeats sliding up and down at the end of the line searching for the note...
...Marshall gave up hope of attending there. He went instead to the all- black law school at Howard University, which in the 1930s was being transformed under vice-dean Charles H. Houston into a training ground for lawyers who would challenge segregation in the courts. Houston became Marshall's mentor, firing the determination of the younger man to confront segregation head on. After graduation Marshall worked as a lawyer for the Baltimore branch of the NAACP. One of his first major cases forced the integration of the same University of Maryland law school he had been unable to attend...
...also helped kill your own mentor, Pasquale ("Pat the Cat") Spirito...
Departments must provide career advice not through a mentor system, but through small advisory committees. And departments should make committee appointments equitably, taking care not to overburden the few female faculty members with too many administrative responsibilities...