Become an Academic Mentor
Students
Please contact us if you would like to become an Academic Mentor at the Center. Please stop by BUTLER145 to pick up an application during our hours of operation.
Interested applicants must be motivated students with strong knowledge in their subject area, have good communication skills, and enjoy helping fellow students.
Duties of Academic Mentors
- Tutor students and help to improve their overall study skills and strategies
- Be punctual and report any changes of schedule in advance.
- Remain available for the full time for which they are scheduled
- Attend all training sessions and meetings.
- Complete all paperwork relevant to the job, including timesheets, and academic mentoring record forms
- Sign in and out at the office, BUTLER145
- Seek the assistance of the Center's professional staff whenever questions or problems arise
- Contribute and assist with ongoing administrative efforts to organize, and expand academic mentoring assistance programs.
Academic Mentor Code of Ethics
- My ultimate goal in an academic mentoring relationship is the student's independence.
- My primary focus for each session is building the student's self-confidence.
- I am to make clear to the student that my role never involves doing the student's work.
- I recognize that my student deserves and will receive my personal attention.
- I will always be sensitive to and address through referral my student’s needs outside the content area, but I recognize and accept that my primary role is to provide to the student expertise and effective instruction in the content area.
- I will respect my student’s personal dignity by accepting each individual without judgment.
- I will constantly encourage my student, but I will never provide false hope or empty flattery.
- I will encourage mutual openness and honesty in the academic mentoring relationship.
- I will not impose my personal value system or lifestyle on my student.
- I will not use an academic mentoring situation to project my personal beliefs.
- I will be open to my student’s comments regarding my performance, and I will allow my student to teach me ways to do a better job.
- I will admit my own weakness in content or instructional ability , and I will seek assistance whenever I need it.
- I will never make my student feel inferior through the use of jargon or language too advanced for my student’s understanding; I will constantly ascertain that my student and I clearly understand what each other is saying.
- I will be punctual, and I will keep all appointments, not only out of professional standards and common courtesy, but as an example for my student to imitate.
- I will maintain records, lesson plans, and student progress data as expected and required.
