Mentoring Program for Cal State University

Mentoring Program for Cal State University, East Bay Student Veterans Program

Mission: To guide and inspire former servicemembers to continuously enhance their leadership skills while succeeding academically.

GUIDELINES:

Mentor must:

1. Have been attending or working at Cal State East Bay at least one quarter.
2. Have a desire to help as a volunteer.
3. Share his/her experience as a student and what you learned from it.
4. Increase the college survival skills of your mentee.
5. Just tell everything how to be successful in college, career, and in social life.

Mentee:

1. A member of Student Veterans Organization.
2. Committed to expanding their capabilities.
3. Open and receptive to new ways of learning and trying new ideas.
4. Able to accept feedback and act upon it.
5. Able to communicate and work cooperatively with others.
6. Have a sense of personal responsibility and commitment.

 

Other Guidelines:

1. Mentor and mentee are encouraged to exchange phone numbers.
2. Both are to engage in a respectful and professional way.
3. Both are encouraged to meet at least once week. Meeting every Wednesday at our meeting room at 4:30pm is highly encouraged so that you may meet other student veterans.
4. It is voluntary.

 

 

 

 

 

YOUR ROLE AS A MENTOR

Establish where you can reach your mentee: by phone, e-mail, fax, or a designated meeting location. Experience proves calling or e-mailing your mentee at school is usually the best way to make contact. Establish a time and phone number where you can usually answer calls or make contact. Mentees need encouragement to leave messages on your voice mail to confirm meetings as well as to cancel them.

• Don’t try to be: teacher, parent, disciplinarian, therapist. Experience demonstrates it is counterproductive to assume roles other than a dependable, consistent friend. Present information carefully without distortion and give all points of view a fair hearing. Listen carefully and offer possible solutions without passing judgement. Don’t criticize or preach. Think of ways to problem solve together rather than lecturing or telling the mentee what to do. Never “should on” your mentee.

• Respect the uniqueness and honor the integrity of your mentee and influence them through constructive feedback. The mentor empowers the mentee to make “right” decisions without actually deciding for the mentee. Identify the mentee’s interests and take them seriously. Be alert for opportunities and “teaching moments.” Explore positive and negative consequences.

 

              YOU ARE A:              

POSITIVE ROLE MODEL

FRIEND

COACH

ADVISOR

SELF-ESTEEM BUILDER

CAREER COUNSELOR

AND

                                                      ADVOCATE

http://www.sonic.net/~mfreeman/mentor/protchar.htm