Mentee College Requirements

As a mentee college, you will be expected to be actively involved in a peer mentoring community, to commit to being fully engaged with your peer mentor and facilitator over the project duration, to fulfill all responsibilities of participation, and to support a process of collaborative learning.

• Designate a team of three to four individuals to participate in a peer mentoring relationship with a mentor college and facilitator. The team should include an individual with direct program leadership responsibility and a senior college-level administrator with program-related responsibility. Additional team members should be actively involved with the initiative and might include a faculty or staff member, community-partner affiliate, or representative from the institutional research department.
• Participate in an initial and final peer mentoring meeting to be held during the first and last six weeks of the project. The meetings will be convened on the campus of the mentor college. Mentee colleges will be asked to complete a writing task in preparation for each meeting. JBL Associates, Inc. will be directly responsible for costs associated with the attendance of three mentee college team members to attend both project meetings.
• Host the mentoring community’s facilitator for a visit to the college campus during the project period.
• Participate in regular conference calls or other interactive communication with members of the mentoring community to support the learning process.
• Conduct periodic internal team meetings to review the mentoring process, assess progress, and identify issues to be addressed with mentoring community partners.
• Develop and implement, with mentoring community members, a peer mentoring action plan that outlines a strategy for the mentoring relationship, including objectives, priorities, challenges, and the roles and responsibilities of community members.
• Submit a monthly project report and invoice to the project coordinator that reviews peer mentoring related activities for the month and briefly discusses issues pertaining to the implementation of the peer mentoring action plan and initiative development.
• Submit, at the conclusion of the mentoring period, an invoice and a report that discusses the team’s experiences with peer mentoring, progress made during the project period, lessons learned, and next steps in initiative development.
• Review and provide comments, if requested, for project related reports initiated by JBL Associates, Inc. that will be provided to the U.S. Department of Education.
• Communicate your involvement in the project to other colleges in the two-year college community, including participation in a podcast, if requested.