Every Student Gets a Mentor
15th February 2016
Many colleges encourage students to seek mentors, frequently among the faculty. But soon, networking that extends beyond campus will become mandatory at Muhlenberg, and every student will learn this terminology. As part of a required course typically taken during freshman year, students will use a database of alumni and parents to practice networking and recruit mentors who share their interests. The program will begin this fall with a pilot of 80 students.
“The whole idea here is to engage our alumni and parents who have gone through life’s passages,” Williams said. “We’ll have mentors at varying stages of life’s journey available to stimulate our students’ thinking about who they are, who they aspire to be.”
The term ‘institutionalized cronyism’ comes immediately to mind. Not to mention the fact that this seems cleverly designed to replace parents as the go-to source for advice, yet another attempt to detach parents from students’ lives and connect them with institutional substitutes.