What Mentoring Does

• Mentoring helps the institution
• Develops future leaders
• Improves the university's image and its social responsibility within the community
• Achieves strategic business goals
• Retains excellent faculty members

Mentoring helps mentors

• Share successes and challenges of their careers
• Feel a sense of satisfaction and personal fulfillment
• Build a new awareness of issues facing colleagues
• Better understand the needs and workings of another department
• Expand leadership capabilities

Mentoring helps mentees

• Gain an advocate and trusted friend
• Get adjusted quickly to the culture of the university
• Support professional growth and renewal
• Learn how to balance teaching, research, service and other responsibilities
• Build a circle of friends and contacts within the university
• Gain job satisfaction and feel a valued member of the community
• Become future leaders