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Student Mentoring Requirements:

• Commitment to participate as a mentor for at least a year;
  

• Have a positive and mature attitude, respect for others and a willingness to help;
  

• Have high academic and professional standards;
  

• Have at least 31 hours of credit;
  

• Have a G.P.A of at least 2.75;
  

• Have a genuine desire to assist first-year students adjust to institutional life;
  

• Understand  the Alabama A & M culture;
  

• Attend one mentoring  orientation workshop each semester;
  

• Interact with mentees through phone calls, emails, facebook and social and sporting events;
  

• Commit to one hour per week with a mentee;
  

• Participate in group discussions on mentoring, social and academic issues encountered;
  

• Show a history of extracurricular activities; and
  

• Complete a mentoring application by August 30, 2009.

Benefits of being a student mentor:

What is in it for me!!!!!!!?

• Boost resume with mentorship and volunteer service record;
  
  
• A chance to meet new individuals with similar interests;
  

• Gain leadership training and skills;
  

• Create a network of friends;
  

• Gain  professional development;
  

• Obtain recommendations to professional schools and the workforce, and
  

• Develop a broad understanding of resources on ‘The Hill’.

Faculty and professional mentor requirements:

• Meet individually with mentee at least once per month;
  

• Make at least one hour each week available for personal contact;
  

• Share professional experiences with mentee;
  

• Refer students to campus services when necessary;
  
  
• Assist students with academic and professional goals;
  

• Increase student’s  professional contacts;
  

• Be a resource to the mentee;
  

• Be open to the ideas of the millennium generation and facilitate their experiences;
  

• and complete application by August 30, 2009

Benefits of being a faculty and professional mentor:

• Satisfaction of developing a protégé;
  

• Involvement in a community activity;
  

• Having a better understanding of student experiences on “The Hill”;
  

• Developing professional relationships with students; and
  

• Introducing mentees to professional experiences (meetings conferences, research forums).

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