College of Education and Human Development

Scholar Spotlight

Anti-racist Mentoring

Our inaugural event took place September 29, 2020 featuring Curriculum and Instruction Professor Tim Lensmire and Brian Lozenski, a former C&I student and now associate professor at Macalester College.

https://vimeo.com/463535656

Their publication, “Anti-racist Mentoring: For White Faculty Who Want to Engage in Black Mentorship,” is written as a dialogue between a White professor (Lensmire) and a Black graduate student (Lozenski) and how their mentoring relationship helped each learn about interracial mentoring. Through their discussion, Lensmire and Lozenski illuminate ways for faculty (especially White faculty) to orient themselves toward the University and Black students, if they want their relationship to be anti-racist.

This work will eventually appear as a chapter in the book What White Faculty Need to Know to Recruit, Retain, and Sustain Black College Students.

Please read the chapter before watching the video: “Anti-racist Mentoring: For White Faculty Who Want to Engage in Black Mentorship.”