Mentoring @ West

Overview
Mission
Objectives
Mentoring Requirements
Links

Overview

TRiO Mentoring @ West is a mentoring program specifically designed to establish long-term mentoring relationships between TRiO participants (first-generation college, low income, and disabled students) and their professional or community mentor.

The professional and community mentors act as pillars of experience upon which a student can rely and build to achieve academic, personal, and professional goals.

This pair fosters support, guidance, inquiry, and growth opportunities for all involved, and specifically focuses on the best interests and needs of the student.

Mission

TRiO Mentoring @ West connects first-generation college, low income, and disabled students to professional and community mentors that believe in each student's potential to achieve and that guide the student toward success.

Objectives

1. Initiate and facilitate a positive and structured mentoring relationship between a TRiO student and a professional mentor in which the mentoring team meets a minimum of four times per semester for at least one academic year.
   
2. Introduce and instill lifelong networking skills for TRiO students by providing at least one opportunity per semester for students to meet one or more TRiO alumni as long as that student is an active participant in the mentoring program.
   
3. Reinforce student educational and personal responsibility by expecting each student to set one ambitious yet attainable goal to be monitored by the student's mentor and achieved by the end of the academic year.
   
4. Promote cooperative skills and teamwork by challenging each student/professional mentor team to create, report on progress, and achieve one collaborative goal over the course of the academic year.
   
5. Illustrate the constructive consequences of mentoring on students by demonstrating a positive impact on at least one of the following key indicators by the end of the academic year:
   1. Substantial academic/professional/personal support;
   2. Heightened awareness of resources on campus or in the community directly related to the student's future goals and interests;
   3. Increase in GPA.
      
6. Foster an environment in which a respectful exchange of ideas between mentor and mentee is encouraged and each individual is allowed to openly experience change, growth, and new perspectives.
   

Mentoring Requirements

1. Attend Mentoring Orientation or meet with Mentoring Coordinator one-on-one.
   
2. Meet with your Student/Mentor four times per semester; this may include up to two events.
   
3. Student: Develop one goal (Academic, Professional, or Leadership) to be achieved by the end of the academic year.
   Mentor : Provide guidance, support, and resources directly related to student's goal, as needed.
   
4. Develop one goal which the Mentoring Team will work on together.
   
5. Submit one follow-up form after each Mentoring Meeting (within one week of meeting) and one program evaluation each semester (within 14 days of the last day of classes) to the Mentoring Coordinator.

Links

The Mentoring Group

National Mentoring Center

National Mentoring Network

The Mentor

For more information about TRiO Mentoring @ West or the TRiO Academic Achievement Center at ASU West, contact:
Monica Aguilera
Mentoring Coordinator & Academic Recruitment/Retention Specialist, Sr.
602.543.8196