News From the Field

1. News From the Field • Deborah Holton, Ph.D., Associate Professor Associate Dean, Mentoring & Part-Time Faculty • Christine Hayda, Assistant Director of Advising • Scott Gabbert, Academic Advisor February 19, 2013

2. Empowering Adult Learners to Persist toward Graduation Seminar Savannah, GA February 11-12. 2013 Seminar Highlights • National projections of adult students by 2019: increase by 23%; traditional students by 9% • Retention issues are across the board – • Many are not “controllable” • Online course offerings are exploding • Increasing concern of verifying student identity • Veterans plenary discussion • Student Handouts, Brochures, Regulations – outstanding resource • Nuances of VA benefits • Assessment and Mapping • What do we value and appreciate in adult students? • Do our institutions value and appreciate the same things?

3. National Annual Conference Empowering students to write their own songs of success. Nashville, TN October 5-7. 2012 Conference Highlights • Most common concurrent sessions topics • Technology in advising • Advising “non-trads” • 1st year experience • Completion v. admission (changes in Fed. funding) • Most common Advising Adult topics • Advising Adults • Retention Initiatives • Student Engagement • Prior Learning Assessment • Methods • Applicability

4. 5th Annual Mentoring ConferenceUniversity of New Mexico Mentoring Institute Facilitating Developmental Relationships for Success October 24 – 26, 2012 Albuquerque, New Mexico

5. The UNM Mentoring Institute The Mentoring Institute develops, coordinates and integrates research and training activities in mentoring best practices at The University of New Mexico. Through the application of instructional design standards, the Institute provides training and certification services for a diverse array of staff, faculty and students, in a centralized effort to recruit, train and develop qualified mentors for UNM, Albuquerque and New Mexico's community. The Mentoring Institute does not replace or direct the mentoring programs that exist. Instead, as a component of UNM Student Services, it provides a variety of services to these programs, in order to build them up and enhance the culture of mentoring through the university, and the state it serves. http://mentor.unm.edu/index.html

6. UNM Conference • Approximately 175 concurrent panels, peer reviewed • Panels - International & National • All US regions • Canada • China • UK • West Indies • Israel • Austria • Finland • Academic • Health Sciences • Engineering • Law • Maritime Studies • Business • Education • Psychology • Music • Agriculture • Social Work • Aeronautics

7. UNM Conference • Public & Private Sectors • Emotional Intelligence Training & Research Institute • National Assoc. of Social Workers • Similar Circles (Management Consulting) • Leadership Mentoring Institute • MMHA Manager’s Mentors, Inc. (Consulting) • Mississippi Childcare Resource & Referral Netowrk • Foundation for Family Life (Social Services) • International Mentoring Agency • TNT Intercultural Leadership & Development • ODScore®Inc. (Research) • Independent Research • Assoc. of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

8. Our Questions • What language/terminology are various scholars and practitioners currently using to describe and define mentoring and advising? What differences, if any, are we seeing across fields and practice settings? • What research and thinkers are being referenced in the current conversation? • What new topics and questions are surfacing in relationship to mentoring and advising? • What empirical research is being done? • What is happening in mentoring and advising that is relevant to our interest in mentoring and fostering and sustaining learning communities? What can we learn about sustaining learning communities in the midst of change

9. Language & Terminology • Definitions: • Developmental: The developmental relationship of a mentor and protégé which is characterized by confidentiality, trust, caring, and mutual support and challenge for growth. The mentoring relationship creates the necessary context of emotional safety and confidence for the mentor and protégé to take the risks of trying new work strategies and of learning in front of each other. This context is necessary for accelerated professional growth. (http://mentoring-association.org/resources/mentoring-glossary/#Relatp) (UNM Mentoring Conference Proceedings, 50)

10. Definitions • Emancipatory: Recognizes the “value and validity of experience and reality of mentor and mentee,” requiring that practitioners “grasp the values within which her mentoring approach is grounded”; promotes “one-ness” to counter judgment. Principles include “authenticity, honesty, transparency, shared struggle, risk-taking behavior by mentee and mentor that is not punished, vulnerability and humbleness in one’s roles, acceptance of the existence of one’s own and other realities, irrespective of the otherness of stakeholders in the relationship and without shortshrifted [sic] how-to’s to diversity” (85-86).

11. Definitions • Electronic Mentoring (e-mentoring) “a relationship between an experienced individual and a less skilled or experienced individual primarily using computer mediated communication (CMC) is intended to develop and improve each mentee’s skills, confidence, and cultural understanding” (Jaffe, Moir, Swanson, & Wheeler, 2006, p. 90) • Multiple definitions exist • A complement to and extension of face-to-face (FtF) mentoring

12. Terminologies • Developmental relationships (mentoring & advising) • Electronic Mentoring • Sponsorship mentoring • Relational Retention

13. References • From Adult Education • Carl Rogers • Malcolm Knowles • John Dewey • Stephen Brookfield • Mary F Belenky, Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Goldberger & Jill Tarule, • Jack Mezirow • Laurence Daloz • Parker Palmer • Lois Zachary • Belle R Ragins • Ellen Ensher & Susan Murphy

14. References • Journal of Applied Psychology • Human Resource Development Review • Academy of Management Review • Social Work • Mentoring and Tutoring • Journal of General Internal Medicine • Group & Organizational Studies • Diverse Issues in Higher Education • Harvard Business Review • Professional Psychology • Innovative Higher Education

15. New Topics • Sponsorship • Relational Retention

16. Empirical Research • Electronic Mentoring (Gentry, U of Mary Washington) • Mentoring Program Assessment • Mentoring and Schools as Workplaces • Formal Mentoring Programs in Graduate Degree Programs

17. Notes • Slide 10: • Gregory, D., Heaven, V., Wiggins, V. & Strohschen, G. (2012) Akpa le tome gakemenyatsifevevienyenyeo: Empowering views from those who know the water. In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings (85-86). • Slide 11: • Gentry, R. (2012) Electronic Mentoring: What is it? What do we know? In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings (341-353).

18. Notes • Slide 12: • ” Gentry, R. (2012) Electronic Mentoring and the How the People Learn Framework: a Developmental Examination. In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings (237-247). • Gonzalez, R. & Marquez, R. (2012) Women’s Leadership Development. In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings (165-171). • Michael, C. & Wilkins, V. (2012) Mentoring to Maximize Relational Resiliency. In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring ConferenceProceedings (517-527).

19. Notes • Slide 16: • ” Gentry, R. (2012) Electronic Mentoring: Do special education mentors and their mentees discuss standards? In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings (1014-22). • Odom-Bartel, N. Richardson, N. Adams. (2012) Tide Together Mentoring Program: An In-Depth Assessment. In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings (603-15). • Khan R & Morgan, B. (2012) Mentoring in Professional Graduate Degree Programs: Implementation, Maintenance and Results of Formal Mentoring Programs. In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring ConferenceProceedings (825-832). • Huling, L., Resta, V. & Yeargain, P. (2012) Research on Teacher Induction, Mentoring, and Schools as Workplaces. In UNM 5th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings (616-623).

20. Implications for Practice What lessons are we learning that can guide our work with adult learners?

21. Tuesday, March 12 “What if Every Community Were a Learning Community?” 5:30—8PM Thursday, April 25 Learning Lab: “Learning Cities” Appreciative Inquiry 5:30—8PM