Entries by Emily.Buss001@umb.edu

New Study: Female Peer Mentors Keep Women in Engineering

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Dennehy, T. C., & Dasgupta, N. (2017). Female peer mentors early in college increase women’s positive academic experiences and retention in engineering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(23), 5964–5969. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1613117114 Introduction Women hold a small share of engineering degrees in the United States, and engineering has one of the lowest proportions of women […]

What We Know (and Don’t) About Mentoring in Rural Settings

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Aschenbrener, C. S., & Edwards, K. (2023). Mentoring youth in rural settings. National Mentoring Resource Center, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. https://www.ojjdp.ojp.gov/library/publications/mentoring-youth-rural-settings Introduction Roughly one in five Americans, nearly 60 million people, lives in a rural setting, yet mentoring research has largely overlooked this population. One meta-analysis found that 87% of mentoring outcome […]

24 Studies Later: New Systematic Review of Mentoring

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Cuming, T., Hoffman, L., Biles, B., & Verdon, S. (2026). The impact of formal one-to-one mentoring upon vulnerable young people: A systematic review. Youth & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X261469877 Introduction Why do mentoring programs succeed in some circumstances and fall short in others? Cuming and colleagues (2026) argue that most prior reviews focused on […]

One Million Degrees Evaluation Show Timing of Support Matters as Much as the Support Itself

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Hallberg, K., Harrison, E., Ruiz, E., & Slaughter, M. (2026). Unpacking the long-term impact of holistic supports for community college students. University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab. Introduction Most community college students never finish. Fewer than 40% earn a credential within six years of enrolling (Bailey, Jaggars, & Jenkins, 2015), and the students most likely […]

Therapeutic Mentoring Certification Course Opens for Fall 2026

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For anyone who has spent years working with young people without a bachelor’s degree to show for it, credentialing gaps can feel like the barrier between doing the work and being recognized for it. UMass Boston’s Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring is opening this door through this credentialing opportunity this fall. The Community Health Worker (CHW) […]

“A Mentor for Academics or a Mentor for Life?” New Research on Faculty-Student Mentoring

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Fortuin, G., & Steenkamp, G. (2026). Mentoring of bursary students by academic staff: An empirical mixed-methods analysis of student and lecturer-mentor perspectives. International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 0(0), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/17418305261459811 Introduction Mentoring is widely framed as a tool for equity and belonging in higher education, particularly for students from disadvantaged backgrounds (Fortuin […]

Mentoring Program Helps Justice-Involved Youth Build Accountability

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Saladino, V., Marchio, A. R., Blandi, C. E., & Cappa, A. (2026). Vis à Vis. Mentoring processes and responsibility in juvenile justice and residential youth care centers: preliminary results. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1850698. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1850698 Introduction Justice-involved youth frequently carry the weight of complex trauma, insecure attachment, and adverse childhood experiences that impair emotional regulation […]

Four Years of Data Reveal a Hidden Resilience in Black and Latinx Students’ Sense of Self

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Fernández, D., & Hurd, N. M. (2026). An examination of ongoing associations between ethnic/racial discrimination and experiences of belonging among Black and Latinx students attending a predominantly White institution. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 36(4), e70281. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70281 Introduction Black and Latinx students graduate from four-year colleges at markedly lower rates than their white […]

When Family Isn’t Enough: How Informal Mentoring Protects Rural Teens Under Stress

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Kogan, S. M., Brody, G. H., & Chen, Y.-f. (2011). Natural mentoring processes deter externalizing problems among rural African American emerging adults: A prospective analysis. American Journal of Community Psychology, 48(3), 272–283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-011-9425-2 Introduction Rural communities across the American South continue to grapple with a legacy of structural racism that shapes the everyday lives of […]