UBMS MENTORS

This Mentor Handbook has been created to give you a clearer understanding of our program and outline our expectations of the mentors.

What is a Mentor?

• A Mentor is an experienced and trusted person who supports, counsels, guides, and teaches a pupil or scholar by willingly passing on acquired knowledge.

• One who voluntarily shares, coaches, encourages, and challenges at the request of someone who seeks advice, support, and learning.

• An individual who takes time to develop the academic, career, and personal aspects of a mentee's life.

What is Mentoring?

• Mentoring is the interactive process involving a one-to-one nurturing relationship between an expert and a protégé; a relationship in which the expert enables the protégé to grow by advising, encouraging, and guiding the protégé's talent and ability.

• The process of leading, guiding, keeping interest focused, supporting, counseling, teaching, coaching, demonstrating, and challenging an inquiring participant within a relationship of mutual trust and respect.

• A structured relationship between a teacher and a student in which the teacher serves as an expert and role model who expands the educational, career, or professional experience of the student.

Mentoring Objectives

"The goal of the program is to help students recognize and develop their potential to excel in math and science and to encourage them to pursue post-secondary degrees in these fields."

• Identify groups underrepresented in math/science education.

• Implement programming activities to effectively prepare high school students from these groups for post-secondary education.

• Serve high school students from low-income families, high school students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor’s degree.

• Increase the rates at which participants enroll in and graduate from institutions of post-secondary education with a major in math/science.

• Increased mentee retention rates

• Increased mentee graduation rates

• Increased mentee grade point averages

• Increased mentee enrollment in math/science programs

• Increased state wide awareness of the program

Mentoring Expectations

The UBMS participant should…

• become more self-motivated, self-disciplined, and set higher goals;

• increase interpersonal skills;

• increase awareness of the college system;

• develop a trusting student/faculty relationship;

• enhance leadership skills;

• enhance decision-making skills;

• become more involved with mentors;

• have a successful transition toward the completion of educational goals.