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What Is Mentoring?

A Learning Collaboration-a developmental caring, sharing, and helping relationship with a focus on the enhancement of the protégé's or mentee's growth and skill development.

Mentoring is just-in time help, insight into issues, and the sharing of expertise, values, skills, and perspectives. Mentors function as a catalyst-an agent that provokes a reaction that might not otherwise have taken place or speeds up a reaction that might have taken place in the future.

Learn more about mentoring through the Mentoring Information Kit site.

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Cultivating Careers E-Book

Cultivating Careers: Professional Development for Campus IT, a new EDUCAUSE e-book, provides an overview of practices for mentoring the next generation of IT leaders in higher education. Hear audio | interviews with current leaders in the industry about how they got to where they are today. Cultivating Careers is available online in PDF and HTML. It can be viewed in its entirety or chapter by chapter at no charge.


One-to-One Matching Programs

One-to-one matching programs are popular within professions where there is a specific achievement level for the members of the profession. Within higher education these programs are common for untenured faculty (including librarians with faculty status) or within a profession (practicing professional mentoring students in areas such as education or social welfare). Within the corporate sector, such programs are common at the initial entry of an employee into the organization.

Examples of one-to-one matching programs within higher education include:

Examples of one-to-one matching programs for librarians include:

An examples of one-to-one matching program for IT professionals include:

Updated October 2009

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