Deconstructing Mentoring in Academe: An Essay Review

On Being a Mentor focuses on the challenges and rewards of the faculty–student mentoring relationship in an academic setting. Johnson intends for this book to guide faculty interested in improving their mentoring and broadening their conceptions and repertoire of mentoring. It is also for students and junior faculty seeking positive mentorships and for administrators striving to create cultures conducive to mentoring. He advocates for individual and organizational change in the academy to support human growth and success, declaring that " mentoring relationships in academic settings are crucial for students and junior faculty who benefit as protégés, for institutions who benefit secondarily, and also for the faculty who reap a range of positive outcomes— personally and professionally " (p. 5). Higher education faculty invested in learning the complex art of mentoring and, in the process, self-evaluation, should find Johnson's new