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Building Connections: The MENtoring for Life Program

Discover the MENtoring for Life program, designed to foster meaningful relationships between fraternity juniors, seniors, and alumni. This initiative provides valuable mentoring opportunities, empowering participants to establish personal goals, enhance professional skills, and develop strong identities. Through monthly meetings, a mentor-mentee matchmaking process, and collaborative events, fraternity men are encouraged to support one another and grow both personally and professionally. Become part of a community that invests in lifelong development and connection.

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Building Connections: The MENtoring for Life Program

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  1. MENtoring for Life Jennelizabeth Bice

  2. Purpose for MENtoring Program • Men are born knowing how to be men, friends, brothers, boyfriends, businessmen, fathers, and husbands – FALSE • MENtoring allows fraternity juniors and seniors to connect with fraternity alumni and build mentoring relationships • Successful mentoring provides lifelong goals, opportunities, and skills (Flynn, 2008)

  3. Why Should an Institution Invest? • Collaboration with Alumni Association, Greek Life Department, Career Services • Retention • Encourage fraternity men to attend the program and become a mentor • Build strength in Alumni Association

  4. AFA Core Competencies • Advisor • Collaboration • Education • Innovation • Leadership • Research

  5. Schedule • Meet & Greet (Fall Semester) • Mentor will share a brief autobiography • Fraternity men will chose a mentor • Collaborate personal goals and expectations of one another. • Monthly Meetings • Mid Semester Follow Up • End of the Year Celebration (Spring Semester) • End of the Year Follow Up

  6. Applicable Theories • Nevit Sanford • Support and Challenge • Chickering & Reisser Vectors • Established Identity • Mature Relationships • Developing Purpose • “Many college students are all dressed up and do not know where they want to go. They have energy but no destination” (Chickering)

  7. Student Learning Outcomes • Create realistic, measurable, and personal goals • Establish a healthy, strong relationship with a mentor • Create a professional resume • Develop professional etiquette for interviews and meetings • Analyze and evaluate personal priorities and responsibilities of being a fraternity man • Apply new found knowledge to every day life and fraternity community

  8. Thank You Questions ?

  9. Works Cited • Association of Fraternity/ Sorority Advisors. (Established 2002, Revised 2007 and 2010) Core Competencies for Excellence in the Profession. Retrieved from http://www.fraternityadvisors.org/default.aspx?action=Content&ContentId=139 on March 25, 2011. • Chickering, A.W. (n.d.a). The Seven Vectors: An Overview. Retrieved from http://www.cabrini.edu/communications/ProfDev/cardevChickering.html on April 1, 2011. • Chickering, A. W. and Reisser, L. (1993). Education and identity. 2 nd. Ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. • Evans, N.J., Forney, D.S., Guido, F.M., Patton, L.D., & Renn, K.A. (2010).  Student Development in college. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. • Flynn, B. (2008, June 15). Mentoring program leads to scholarships. Pantagraph, The Bloomington, IL. Retrieved from EBSCOhoston March 25, 2011.

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