Modeling Mentoring Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender (ePub)

Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner is professor emerita for the doctorate in educational leadership program at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), and Lincoln professor emerita of Higher Education and Ethics at Arizona State University (ASU). At CSUS, Turner served as interim dean for the College of Education. Prior to her appointment at ASU, she was Professor of Educational Policy & Administration at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where she co-founded the national Keeping our Faculties of Color Symposium. She is also past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Her research and teaching interests include faculty gender and racial/ethnic diversity, leadership and organizational change, and the use of qualitative methods for policy research. Her publications, particularly Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success (with Myers, Jr.), Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees, and Women of Color in Academe: Living with Multiple Marginality advanced the dialogue on faculty gender and racial/ethnic diversity among scholars and practitioners. Dr. Turner has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, and the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. She is one of the founding editorial advisory board members for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education and the Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity, and Leadership. Her numerous recognitions include the University of California, Davis (UCD) School of Education Distinguished Alumna Award, Sacramento State's University-Wide Faculty Award for Research and Creative Activity, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Council on Ethnic Participation Mildred Garcia Senior Scholar Award, and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Scholars of Color in Education Career Contribution Award. Dr. Turner currently serves on the UCD School of Education Dean's Board of Advisor