City Tech’s Undergraduate Research Committee is proud to announce the publication of the second edition of its mentoring handbook, A Handbook on Mentoring Students in Undergraduate Research: Proven Strategies for Success. The second edition of the Handbook is an open educational resource in Pressbooks, allowing for adaption by other undergraduate research programs and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.* It is entirely free of charge to all users.
We would appreciate learning more about how other undergraduate research programs have adapted this book and value your feedback.
The book can be read online and downloaded as print pdf, digital pdf, and epub (requires Adobe Digital Editions) formats.
This edition is fully revised and features a new chapter on virtual mentoring.
The purpose of the Handbook is to:
• Describe the concepts and benefits of mentoring;
• Describe the phases of the mentoring relationship;
• Define the roles of the faculty mentor and undergraduate student mentee;
• Provide strategies for becoming an effective mentor;
• Provide strategies for becoming a successful mentee;
• Provide tools to help the faculty mentor manage the mentor-mentee relationship; and
• Provide mentoring resources and references.
The Handbook is outlined in the following nine chapters:
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Foreword to the Second Edition
Introduction
Rationale
