**6.4 Do mentors encourage their protégés to pursue leadership opportunities? [RQ4]**

There were mixed results concerning the connection between mentoring and the encouragement of leadership development, according to role at the institution. Participants were asked if they believed that their mentor encouraged them to pursue leadership opportunities at their institution and 80% either agreed or strongly agreed. A one-way ANOVA was performed with role at university (faculty, staff, or both) as in independent variable, and results showed a significant difference regarding whether participants were encouraged to pursue leadership opportunities at the institution, *F* (2, 83) = 4.67, *p* < .05. Tukey HSD post—hoc tests showed that staff members were encouraged to be leaders less often (*p* < .05) than faculty members were.
