One of the issues that we addressed with this mentoring supplement, and one of our goals is, to help the scholars, mentors, become better attuned to the career development challenges of their junior colleagues of color. And certainly for the few who are people of color, they bring to it a unique, their own set of experiences around that, and their own strategies for dealing with some of the career development challenges of being a token minority; of dealing with racism in their departments, in their programs; of dealing with ethnocentrism around their research interests; and thinking about some of the more difficult issues around networking and the kinds of opportunities that people of color don't often have access to.

But, I think, as important is helping the white mentors and the white scholars in our program better understand what some of the issues are that their students of color, or their post-docs of color are experiencing. And helping them think about becoming better attuned to what those issues are, and then figuring out what role they can play as mentors to help facilitate their mentees' work, and how they navigate the academy; and thinking about it not just in terms of training them to do good research.

Making sure they have access to some of these informal conversations that are so important at conferences and in meetings; bringing them in so they can be part of those conversations, and meet people; as well as the formal meetings. Helping them; one of the things that some of the scholars have done, if they're white, is to help their mentees connect with other more senior scholars of color, too. With, and I think their thinking there is, there are certain things that they think they can provide, but that they also want, they think that a more senior person of color can also provide something a little bit different.

And I think it's also helping their mentees think about, or recognize what the hidden curriculum in academia. What are some of the informal norms and rules, which I think is sometimes harder for people of color to access, because they're the unspoken rules. And so it's helping them identify what some of those rules and those norms are, and finding ways to talk about them. And part of it, I think, is also the culture of academia, helping them identify it. Not to say that they have to adopt those norms themselves, but at least be able to recognize it so they're better able to negotiate some of that.