The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

Gabriel Kuperminc is Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Georgia State University, where he chairs the Community Psychology Doctoral Program. His research examines resilience and positive youth development among Latino/a youth and youth from immigrant families, with particular attention to the relationships with mentors and other caring adults that help young people ...

Jean Rhodes

Days after the midterm elections, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, a former teacher and high school principal, was asked during a live taping of the Pivot podcast why so many boys are struggling. “I do think we have a real crisis here,” he said. “And for me, it’s a crisis of connection” (Swisher & Galloway, 2026). Boys, he explained, “see fewer male role mod...

Ramos, H. V., & Vu, K.-P. L. (2026). Research, mentoring and science self-efficacy: A longitudinal study of a STEM intervention at CSULB. Journal of STEM Education, 27(2), 28–33.

The case for undergraduate research as a driver of persistence in science, technology, engineering, and math fields is well established. Hurtado et al. (2011) found that stude...

Deng, H., Guan, Y., Zhou, X., Li, Y., Cai, D., Li, N., & Liu, B. (2024). The “double-edged sword” effects of career support mentoring on newcomer turnover: How and when it helps or hurts. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(7), 1094–1114. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001143

Organizations pair newcomers with mentors partly to keep them, and the prevailing...

By Jean Rhodes

I wanted to share some highlights from a very busy fall. It started an invitation to the Vatican for a meeting on belonging. From there, I headed to Albuquerque and then Ottawa for mentoring conferences, with plenty of opportunities along the way to reconnect with friends, family, and colleagues.

The Vatican gathering,