Faculty mentors play a crucial role in mentoring graduates. Students and their mentors share responsibility for ensuring productive and rewarding mentoring relationships. Both parties have a role to play in the success of mentoring. For graduate students, a mentor is someone who serves as a guide throughout their institutional training. They provide both professional and personal advice to the students. They further give constructive feedback on writing, teaching and other elements of career design. They can serve to help students balance professional goals with their personal lives or give emotional encouragement during challenging times.

The goal of higher education is to shape the personality and character of the human being for their own betterment, and also making them capable of sustaining in the society and in nature and ultimately for the development of a nation. 

The student mentoring system helps to provide guidelines and support to the students in different avenues of academic and personal aspects. Under the Mentor-Mentee system, the college aims to improve the overall personality development of the students and to inculcate qualities like problem solving, decision making, stress management, self motivation and human values.

Objectives

01. To develop healthy relationship between students and teachers

02. To ensure academic and personal excellence of the students

03. To inculcate the human values among the students

Methodology

The teachers should interact with students on discussion mode on topics and issues related to their personal and academic aspects. Teachers should be empathetic towards the issues of students and should value their thoughts. It is essential for giving exposure, guiding thoughts, and realizing their values.

The topics of discussion are given below :

01.    Encouraging self-motivation

02.    Behavioural and disciplinary aspects

03.    Students aspirations and future plans

04.    Career guidance and counselling

05.    Responsibility towards society

06.    Influence of peer pressure

07.    Valuing relationships

08.    Health and hygiene and mental well being

09.    Encouraging talents and extra-curricular activities

10.    Issues related to coping up with new atmosphere

Guidelines

01. Mentor should maintain a record of all the details of their mentees

02. Groups should remain for entire course duration.

03. The mentor should conduct regular meetings and discussions on any problem may it be academic, financial, psychological, etc.

04. There should be a continuous review of students’ progress.

05. The interactions and meeting should be recorded.

06. The mentor should identify the poor learners and interact with them to resolve the problem.

07. The mentor can involve the Parents or Head of the institution for reforming of the student issues.

Responsibilities of Mentor

• Introduction of group and discussion of the mentor – mentee system.

• Call of meeting and record of details in the form about goal setting & action plans

• Mentor shall advise and take necessary actions about the attendance of mentee with regards to SBTE rules.

• Mentor shall keep the track of the overall academic performance of the mentee through counselling

• Keep a track of attendance and academic performance.

• Provide emotional support

• Contact the parents and inform them about the progress of their ward.

• Arrange remedial teaching, if necessary.

• Encourage the students to take the advice and guidance of the mentor whenever essential

Responsibilities of Mentee

• Fill the information in the prescribed form

• Attend meeting regularly

• Seek advice from the mentor whenever required

• Discuss with the mentor your progress in academics and other fields