Word: mentorship
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...very small number of people in the pool.” President of the Black Students Association Nneka C. Eze ’07, who is an economics concentrator, said she believes that one way to increase the pool of black professorial economics candidates would be to institute a mentorship program for black economics students. “Whether it’s a mentor-mentee relationship, or conducting research, just having contact with an economist lets you see what it’s about,” she said. “If you don’t have...
...position of dance instructor, was, “They won’t even understand my English!”In a way, the statement is not hyperbole. At the time, Harvard really did not speak or understand her language. She was raised in the old school of artistic mentorship: absolute respect for one’s teachers, with the expectation that it took harshness, sometimes even cruelty, to grow as an artist. But at Radcliffe, and later at Harvard, Mallardi learned to work more gently with pupils who were students first, dancers second. Thus, she says she found...
Usually JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE fends off shutterbugs who trail him and his photogenic girlfriend Cameron Diaz. But in Edison, the former 'N Syncer's feature acting debut, which closes the Toronto International Film Festival this month, he plays a cub reporter who seeks mentorship from a photojournalist, albeit one of a different stripe. MORGAN FREEMAN says his character "was at a lot of the hot spots in the world." (And, no, he doesn't mean nightclubs.) "He's burned out. He's seen a lot of rough stuff." The two actors, both from Memphis, Tenn., got on fine, but the Oscar...
...Durham, N.C. Parishioners there were worried that their confirmation ceremonies were functioning more as exit interviews, one last sacrament before 13-year-olds inevitably succumbed to secularism and left the church. The solution, they decided, was a two-year program welcoming adolescents into the community with equal doses of mentorship, Scripture and recreation...
Some departments find that mentorship can be easier to facilitate, while finding advisers well-informed enough to guide students about requirements and classes is more difficult...