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Graduate Research Papers

Student Counseling and Personnel Services

1997

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Women, Mentoring, And The Degree : Tiptoeing Through The Academic Tulips, Linda Marie Schneider Jan 1997

Women, Mentoring, And The Degree : Tiptoeing Through The Academic Tulips, Linda Marie Schneider

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The purpose of this paper is to examine issues related to mentoring women in higher education. Specifically, this paper will address issues concerning the chilly climate women face on campus, issues that focus on gender stereotypes for women in higher education, and issues which prohibit successful mentoring between women. students and.administrators. Finally, recommendations for student service administrators to· enhance mentoring relationships are suggested.


A Research Paper Presented To The Department Of Educational Administration And Counseling, Eric C. Wood Jan 1997

A Research Paper Presented To The Department Of Educational Administration And Counseling, Eric C. Wood

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I began to seriously think about teaching as a career during my senior year of high school. Before that, I knew I was going to college, but I had no idea what I was going to study. I was going to play football, and if I learned something along the way that was fine. A knee injury during the third game of my senior year quickly altered any thought of ever playing football again. I knew I wanted to stay around football and figured the only way to do that was to coach. Teaching was going to be the vehicle …