ABSTRACT While the literature on mentoring in academe is vast, mentees’ accounts of effective mentorship are relatively rare. The purpose of this essay is to add a close-up analysis of what matters to mentees in academic mentoring relationships. This essay presents our analyses of 62 letters describing the first author’s mentorship, as well as both authors’ mentorship experiences, to highlight forms of support mentees value. The letters, nominations of the first author for four mentoring awards, represent the views of a diverse group of graduate student and faculty mentees as well as faculty colleagues. Drawing on document analysis methods, this essay identifies aspects of mentorship pertaining to: (1) advancing scholarship, (2) navigating institutional contexts, and (3) humanizing mentoring relationships. These themes corroborate prior research on salient dimensions of mentorship and highlight the importance of centering mentees’ perspectives, particularly as academic institutions and related professional organizations develop novel mentoring programs and structures.

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对受训者重要的是：集中声音

摘要虽然关于学术界指导的文献很多，但受指导者对有效指导的描述却相对较少。本文的目的是对在学术指导关系中对受指导者重要的事情进行特写分析。本文介绍了我们对62封信件的分析，这些信件描述了第一位作者的指导以及两位作者的指导经验，以强调支持受助者价值的形式。这些信件是第一位获得四次指导奖提名的人的提名，代表了各种各样的研究生，教职员工以及教职员工的观点。利用文档分析方法，本文确定了与以下方面有关的导师制：（1）推进学术研究；（2）导航机构环境；以及（3）使导师关系人性化。