Mentoring in Higher Education
Learning and growth is what higher education is all about. Fuel the fire. Mentoring expands learning opportunities and strengthens the bond between students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Student Mentoring Leads to Lifelong Connections
Mentoring enhances academic learning by providing students with career insights, guidance and professional contacts. As a result, mentoring increases student satisfaction and develops stronger ties to your institution. Whether students engage with other students, faculty, alumni or industry professionals, they will make valuable connections that could last a lifetime.
Benefits of Student Mentoring
- Enhances classroom learning
- Increases student satisfaction and retention
- Connects students to the professional community
- Provides career networking opportunities
- Grows alumni and professional engagement
How Chronus Mentor Helps
- Pairs students with the best mentors aligned to their learning needs
- Engages students with a familiar online experience similar to LinkedIn and Facebook
- Provides a secure online community available only to individuals selected by you
- Removes distance as a barrier as mentoring connections can be across town or cross the globe
- Simplifies program administration with intelligent matching and automation tools.
Faculty Mentoring Benefits Everyone
Mentoring helps build a strong collaborative faculty.Through mentoring, faculty share experiences and knowledge across the full spectrum of faculty interests including: research, grant writing, community engagement and teaching. Also, mentoring helps faculty better navigate the processes and structure of the university. When faculty members grow, so do their students.
Benefits of Faculty Mentoring
- Helps new faculty ramp up quicker
- Builds deeper knowledge around key topic areas
- Increaseds faculty collaboration and invention
- Improves instruction quality
- Enhances job satisfaction and retention
How Chronus Mentor Helps
- Caters to individual faculty needs through one-on-one, group and situational mentoring options
- Promotes open communication by providing a private mentor-mentee connection area to interact and share information.
- Enables university to build a rich online knowledgebase for all faculty to leverage
- Provides a low cost, resource efficient approach to faculty development
Develop the Staff That Supports the University
Your staff is the backbone of the university. They influence the student experience and manage administrative processes that keep your institution running smoothly. Mentoring creates a culture of knowledge sharing and inspires possibility.
Benefits of Staff Mentoring
- Strengthens connection between colleagues
- Develops knowledge around key skills sets
- Improves job performance
- Enhances job satisfaction and retention
How Chronus Mentor
- Enables staff to select (or you can assign) mentors/coaches from anywhere within the organization, regardless of location
- Supports both short and longer-term situation and topical learning between individuals and groups
- Tracks staff progress throughout mentoring process
- Creates high administrator efficiencies through self-managing structure and automation tools