David
L. DuBois, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Community Health Sciences
School of Public Health (MC 923)
University of Illinois at Chicago
1603 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60612-4324
(312) 413-3564
(312) 996-3551 (Fax) dldubois@uic.edu
Michael
J. Karcher, Ed.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School Counseling Program Director
College of Education and Human Dev.
University of Texas at San Antonio
501 West Durango Blvd., Office 4.314
San Antonio, Texas 78207
210-458-2671 www.professorkarcher.com mkarcher@utsa.edu
Dr.
David DuBois is an Associate Professor in the Division of
Community Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the
University of Illinois-Chicago. DuBois has authored several journal
articles and book chapters on the topic of mentoring, including a
recent meta-analytic literature review on the effectiveness of youth
mentoring programs. Currently, he is co-investigator on a study funded
by the William T. Grant Foundation to examine youths’ natural
mentoring relationships with staff at Boys and Girls Clubs. He also
has served on the board of a community mentoring agency, served as
faculty advisor to the university chapter of a Big Brothers/Big Sisters
(BB/BS) program, and been a BB/BS mentor himself.
Dr.
Michael Karcher is an Assistant Professor of Education and
Human Development at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Karcher
has researched and written about the contexts and individual characteristics
that help mentors to persist, what happens when mentoring relationships
end prematurely, and what occurs between mentors and mentees in successful
matches. He has focused primarily on cross-age mentoring in schools,
and has developed and evaluated school-based mentoring programs in
Texas, Wisconsin, and New York. He is on the editorial boards of Psychology
in the Schools and Professional School Counseling. He has just completed
a three-year study of mentoring funded by the U.S. Department of Education
and is currently examining school-based mentoring conducted through
Communities In
Schools.
Dr.
David DuBois is an Associate Professor in the Division of
Community Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the
University of Illinois-Chicago. DuBois has authored several journal
articles and book chapters on the topic of mentoring, including a
recent meta-analytic literature review on the effectiveness of youth
mentoring programs. Currently, he is co-investigator on a study funded
by the William T. Grant Foundation to examine youths’ natural
mentoring relationships with staff at Boys and Girls Clubs. He also
has served on the board of a community mentoring agency, served as
faculty advisor to the university chapter of a Big Brothers/Big Sisters
(BB/BS) program, and been a BB/BS mentor himself. 
Dr.
Michael Karcher is an Assistant Professor of Education and
Human Development at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Karcher
has researched and written about the contexts and individual characteristics
that help mentors to persist, what happens when mentoring relationships
end prematurely, and what occurs between mentors and mentees in successful
matches. He has focused primarily on cross-age mentoring in schools,
and has developed and evaluated school-based mentoring programs in
Texas, Wisconsin, and New York. He is on the editorial boards of Psychology
in the Schools and Professional School Counseling. He has just completed
a three-year study of mentoring funded by the U.S. Department of Education
and is currently examining school-based mentoring conducted through
Communities In
Schools.