UTSA receives grant to study Hispanic-youth mentoring
(July 1, 2003)--The University of Texas at San Antonio was recently awarded a $282,124 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation for a three-year study on school-based mentoring.
UTSA Professor Michael Karcher is principal investigator for the project, "Effective Mentoring Interactions with Hispanic Youth in School-Based Mentoring."
The project will examine mentor motivation and mentor-mentee interactions to determine which interactions best produce positive changes among mentors and mentees, and whether or not Hispanic youth come to see mentors as significant adults in their lives.
Working with Communities In Schools of San Antonio, Karcher and UTSA Adjunct Professor Patrick McDaniel will examine how school-based mentoring program coordinators can recruit better mentors and facilitate more sustained mentoring relationships with Hispanic mentees.
Karcher proposes to build upon a recent pilot study from a faculty research award, "The Characteristics of Effective School-Based Mentoring: A UTSA/Communities In Schools Research Collaboration." This and other studies found that half of all mentoring relationships end within six months, often doing more harm than good.
For more information, contact Adela Quinones at (210) 458-2602.
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