Student Mentees

Faculty-to-Student Mentor Program

Student Role

Your role as a student mentee is to consistently interact with your faculty mentor in a way that helps you achieve your educational goals. This means that you are willing to be open and honest with your mentor, that you respect your mentors' time, that you respond to contact, that you honor commitments, and that you are open to constructive feedback from your mentor.

Student Mentee Application

Student Expectations

Monthly

Note: Visits between mentors and mentees can occur face-to-face or virtually if there are geographical or social distancing limitations. Your total time commitment to participate in these meetings and providing monthly feedback is likely to take between 2 and 5 hours each fall and spring semester.

During your first meeting, you and your mentor will decide the frequency and modality of your interactions. This can be revised as needed. At minimum, you will be expected to meet with your mentor or have monthly contact based on the following:

  • On your first visit, you will meet one-on-one with your mentor and complete the Mentor/Mentee Initial Meeting Guide.
  • Each semester, you will meet face-to-face with your mentor at least twice. These meetings can be done one-on-one or in a group.
  • In months when you don’t visit face-to-face with your mentor, you will interact with them via email, text, or phone.
  • Complete a monthly reflections survey of the program.

Participating in the Research Component

This mentoring program has an optional research component, USU IRB protocol #11217. You can participate in the mentoring program without participating in the research.

The purpose of the research study is to evaluate if this program helps students adjust to university life and persist to graduation. If you have questions about this research study, including the recruiting process, contact the principal investigator:
Jeff Spears at (435)-613-5011 or jeff.spears@usu.edu.

To be included in this study, student mentees must be:

  • a tuition paying undergraduate student,
  • at least 18 years of age or older, and
  • enrolled in the USU statewide campus system.

Your total time commitment to participate in the research component of this program is likely to take about 25-30 minutes the first semester you enroll and 15 minutes in the following semesters. As part of this research component, mentees will be expected to complete the following tasks:

  1. Understand and sign the informed consent document near the beginning of your first semester in the program. This should take about 10 minutes.
  2. Complete the mentee pre-survey near the beginning of the first semester you enroll in the program. This should take about 2 minutes.
  3. Complete the mentee post-survey during week 14 or 15 of the semester. This should take about 15 minutes.
  4. Repeat step 3 in upcoming semesters.

Once you understand your role and expectations, complete the application form above. This form will let program administrators know if you do or do not want to participate in this mentoring program, and whether you want to participate in the research component. If you choose the research component, you will be further guided to complete the informed consent and mentee pre-survey assessment