CCRI Mentor Program

Do you remember when you started at CCRI? Had you taught at a college before? What elements to your new position were challenging for you? The CCRI Mentor Program is designed to help new faculty members hit the ground running.
We have 30 new faculty members and many need training in similar areas. To address this, we have established a calendar of presentations. You can find it the Bb course, under Presentations Calendar.  Topics, like the Early Alert system, classroom civility and professional development are all included. We ask that you encourage your protégé to attend these events.
Your job, as a mentor, is to help identify the resources that get your protege on the road to success. We do expect new faculty members to identify goals for their initial year, and we expect the dyad to meet at least once per month.  The mentee develops his goals, seeks guidance from the mentor regarding resources to achieve these goals, and updates the mentor to the status of the goals. The mentor does not have a role in assessing a mentee.
We have sought faculty volunteers to join the Mentor program. Research overwhelming supports that becoming a mentor should be a volunteer position.  People step up to assist new faculty for the intrinsic rewards of the position, not for extra pay.  

As the school year gears up, I would like to thank you for your interest in this program.  I trust you will find the experience to be rewarding.  I will be posting research about mentoring in future blogs, so I hope you revisit this site. Thanks.      

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