Mentors are senior faculty who work with junior faculty to facilitate professional and personal growth by sharing information and insights, providing encouragement, and opening doors. Below are some ...

The first step anyone thinking about starting a mentoring program should take is to define what the objective of the program will be. If you are aiming for higher minority retention rates, your ...

Mentoring is a critical tool in faculty development and in facilitating faculty success and retention. Under the leadership of Dr. Alecia Gross, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development, we ...

Too many corporate mentoring programs share a familiar fate: they launch with great fanfare, pair up employees with good intentions, and then quietly fade into irrelevance. Ask any HR executive, and ...

Employee mentoring programs can enable you to get more from your most valuable resource, your employees. Further developing the talent you already have through mentoring could lead to a variety of ...

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – To some degree, nearly everyone has had a mentor in their lives. Parents are usually our very first mentors, teaching social skills, guiding their children in ...

For graduate students, navigating the changing world of academia while researching, writing a dissertation and working towards a degree can be difficult to face alone. For Mary Stromberger, vice ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s no secret formal mentoring programs can increase employee engagement. They’ve even been proven to increase promotions for mentors ...