Mentoring Undergrads: Connect with Students and Connect Students to Extended Support Systems

While faculty workloads can make student mentoring, relationship building, and retention efforts feel daunting, there are steps we can implement in four important spaces (our classrooms, our offices, our departments, and our communities) that develop expanding systems of support around students. Learning about our students while also facilitating their connections to scaffolding available from faculty colleagues, our institution as a whole, and even our communities increases the strength of the bonds that sustain academic and personal growth.  Implementing small changes in current practices can go a long way toward helping students feel supported, understood, and able to thrive. Hosted by Dr. Adrienne Redding, faculty fellow in the Office of Faculty Development. Faculty, instructors, and graduate teaching assistants are encouraged to attend.