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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.

EDUCAUSE 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:

The Center for Women & Information Technology Mentoring Program

Updated October 2009

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Mentoring: Mentoring True What Is Mentoring? A Learning Colla…
Mentoring, Self-Awareness, and Collaboration: The 2012 EDUCAUSE Award Winners: January 28, 2013

The EDUCAUSE Awards Program, under the guidance of the EDUCAUSE Recognition Committee, brings peer endorsement and distinction to professional accomplishments in higher education information tech…
Podcast: The Importance of Mentors on the Journey to a First CIO Position: November 28, 2012

Speaker: Melissa Woo, Vice Provost for IS and CIO, University of Oregon Mentoring has evolved beyond the traditional long-term, one-on-one style. There are many different mentoring st…
The Importance of Mentors on the Journey to a First CIO Position: November 8, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference
Mentoring has evolved beyond the traditional long-term, one-on-one style. There are many different mentoring styles, and each can be leveraged effectively to assist in one's professional devel…
Successful Mentoring Relationships for Career Development: May 30, 2012 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference
Participation in mentoring activities can be a key success factor in your career development. But how do you start? How do you find the right mentor or set of mentors for your situation? This ses…
The EITS Mentorship Program: A Powerful Tool for Personal, Professional, and Organizational Growth: May 31, 2012 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference
Hear our success stories about the EITS Mentorship Program and learn how it was developed, how it works, and how to develop a similar program. Its members are employees from across EITS, and its mi…
Diversity in Higher Ed IT: December 15, 2011

At the end of October 2011 the tech industry was abuzz. The issue: inequality and racism. The reason: CNN with Soledad O'Brien released a video clip of their upcoming special " Black…
The Higher Education CIO: Portrait of Today, Landscape of Tomorrow—Slide Presentation: September 28, 2011

This slide presentation illuminates findings from the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) 2011 research on the role of the higher education CIO and the state of the IT workforce. This sl…
The Higher Education CIO: Portrait of Today, Landscape of Tomorrow, 2011: October 3, 2011

Key Findings The CIO role in higher education continues to inspire, perplex, and fascinate those who examine it. The 2011 ECAR study of information technology leaders in colleges and universit…
The Right Stuff: Insights for Next-Generation Technology Leaders and the CIOs Who Mentor Them: October 20, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
There is significant discussion around the changing demographics of the CIO and the move from current generation of CIOs to next generation CIOs. Join three successful CIOs and three technology lea…

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