Faculty-Student Mentoring Program

Mission: NVC’s faculty-student mentoring program provides students with holistic guidance empowering them to achieve their academic, career, and personal goals.

About the Program: Northwest Vista College’s faculty-student mentoring program involves a partnership in which faculty members (the mentors) and students (the mentees) collaborate in defining and achieving academic, career, or personal goals. The purpose of mentoring is to provide students with greater individual attention to enable students to fulfill their potential as students, professionals, and community members. Mentors can help students transition to college, find needed resources, meet other students, get involved with a student organization, plan for a career, develop marketable skills, and transfer to a university.

The Faculty Student Mentor Program is here to support students throughout their time in our programs and until they complete their goals with us and complete a degree, transfer to a university, or enter employment. Students receive encouragement, support, and guidance toward goal completion from a faculty member in a discipline similar to the student’s program goal.

This program formalizes the important interactions between faculty and students to be used in conjunction with a professional advisor with the intention of promoting student retention and completion.

Contact

For more information, including FAQs, please visit: Faculty-Student Mentoring Program Links to an external site. or

Email: Catie Philips or Muraya Gonzalez

Email: nvc-fsm@alamo.edu