Word: mentorships
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Other options that the students discussed included starting an early mentorship programs for female freshmen considering the sciences...
...question that remains for many students and administrators is just how much fun tutors and students are allowed to have together, and where to draw the line between productive mentorship and inappropriate behavior...
...order to enact change. To that end, I offer that faculty can impact the grassroots by organizing—drumroll please—students! The apathy with which many intellectuals credit our generation is a result of being bombarded with statistics about poverty and hopelessness without being offered mentorship as we seek to solve these dilemmas. With no meaningful guidance, many black students decide to major in law, business, or medicine with a minor in black magic—the study of how to be invisible to poor black people...
...rest of it I could give or take, but I was hoping for the lasagna. My parents have students over for a lasagna dinner at our house every year, and it always seemed like that was an important part of undergraduate education: Italian food and close mentorship. Because I basically got neither at Harvard, I thought this was a major fault of the whole endeavor. My vision of what college was supposed to be was totally shaped by my impressions of my dad and his students. Anything different from that was imperfect. That was before my dad came to college...
...instead I took a what-if tour through the office hours of eight of my current and former professors. We chatted about student faculty interaction, especially the emphasis on one-on-one relationships. Most people agree, of course, that mentorship is important, but that the emphasis on a one-on-one relationship that Light makes is not ideal for everyone...