2018 Teaching and Learning Spring Conference and Student Success Summit Keynote and Panel Discussion

Keynote given by Beronda Montgomery, MSU Foundation Professor, AAN Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Node Leader, Academic Advancement Network 

Description: Mentoring is often positioned as the transfer of information from an experienced, senior individual (or mentor) to a junior, inexperienced individual (or mentee). Implicit in this description are the ideas that at the core of mentoring is a process of teaching – to guide, instruct and train – and that mentoring may largely be a one-way flow of information. Increasingly, however, mentoring is being understood as a process best facilitated through a bilateral exchange and flow of knowledge and learning between individuals in a mentoring exchange. In this evolving conceptualization and practice of mentoring, both mentor and mentee are positioned as learners and teachers. In this presentation, I explore effective means of cultivating mentoring as a place of collaborative learning and reciprocal cultivation that promotes the growth and success of all involved in the mentoring process.

Panel: What does teaching for student success mean to me?

Moderator: Provost June Youatt

Panelists:

M. Isabel Ayala,  Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies Program

R. Sekhar Chivukula, Professor of Physics; Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education; Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Teena Gerhardt, Associate Professor, Mathematics Department

Jasmine Lee, Neighborhood Director, Advising Lead, East Neighborhood

Danielle M. Lopez, Assistant Director of Student Success, Biological and Physical Sciences-Interdepartmental Advisor

Randy Rasch, Dean and Professor, College of Nursing

Chezare A. Warren:  Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education