Overview

A mentor is a guide. A friend. A resource who paves the way to success, and derives satisfaction from helping others succeed. Your role as mentor is to inspire, encourage, and support your mentee, and to contribute to their college transition and personal development. The Kelley to Kelley peer mentoring program has a special focus on wellness and balance. We encourage you to share your experience and support your mentee in developing healthy habits as they begin their college career.


Frequently Asked Questions

  • ​​How many mentees will I have? Mentors will be assigned up to 3 mentees to mentor individually with the opportunity to meet as a group as well.  Mentors can elect to have less than 3 mentees if they have limited time.
  • What am I expected to do? Mentors are expected to provide their mentee with about one hour of support and interaction per month. You and your mentee can choose how you would like to connect. Mentors should work with their mentee to determine what kind of support will be most useful—tips on getting involved, guidance towards campus resources, advice from their own experience during the first year of college, personal encouragement, and so on.
  • How long will the commitment be? We ask our mentors to make commitment of one academic year, including throughout the summer, in order to ensure that the student is able to fully benefit from the relationship. If a mentor must leave the relationship early, we request at least one month's notice in order to search for a replacement mentor with similar background.
  • Relationship is not going well or I am concerned about mentorship, what to do? We encourage letting the your mentee know about the situation if appropriate and contact the Admin immediately. We will provide our full support to help identify the best solution moving forward.

Connect with a New Student!

Share your expertise with a first year Kelley student.

For those of you who are returning after participating last year:

  • Start by clicking "login" (rather than clicking "Join Now").
  • After clicking "login," enter your email and password. If you've forgotten your password over time, you can click "forgot password" to reset it.
  • After logging in, you will be presented with the Profile Form. Anything previously entered will be pre-filled to save time.
New to the program? Welcome!
 

Mentor DO's

  1. COMMIT AT LEAST ONE INTERACTION/HOUR OF SUPPORT per month.
  2. Take responsibility to initiate the relationship.
  3. Set aside time for the mentoring process and honor all appointments.
  4. Invite your mentee to meetings or activities, as appropriate. Schedule meetings with planned topics.
  5. Be flexible on meeting times and places.
  6. Arrange frequent contacts through telephone, email, fax, face-to-face, etc., as appropriate
  7. Respond to emails from your mentee within 2 days of receipt.
  8. Keep information that your mentee has shared with you confidential. If something concerning your mentee needs to be discussed with others, it should first be discussed within the mentoring relationship.
  9. Establish open and honest communication and a forum for idea exchange.
  10. Foster creativity and independence. Help build self-confidence and offer encouragement.
  11. Provide honest and timely feedback to your mentee.
  12. Provide opportunities for your mentee to talk about concerns and ask questions.
  13. Above all, LISTEN.

Mentor DON'Ts

  1. Try to give advice on everything.
  2. Encourage your mentee to be totally dependent upon you.
  3. Provide your personal history, problems, animosities, successes, failures, etc unless they are constructive contributions.
  4. Be too busy when your mentee needs your friendship or your support. If you do not have time, give them a heads up, so that they know when they can reach you.
  5. Criticize.