Mentoring

Welcome to the Fox Mentoring Home Page!

The mentoring program at Fox is open to all students and employees of the university. Our mission is to coordinate relationships that foster spiritual, academic, and relational growth in mentees. This will be done through relationships with wise, loving, and encouraging adult or student mentors.
Students may request that the focus of their mentoring relationship is spiritual, accountability-based, major-centered, or simply to gain wise insight from someone outside their family and group of friends. The idea is that mentoring relationships are personal and tailored to meet the needs of the mentee. There are currently two branches of the program:

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1)Peer-to-Peer
  • Juniors and Seniors mentor freshmen
  • The two students grow together and encourage one another in faith, academics, and social arenas
  • The mentor offers life experience and insights, prayer, and wisdom to a freshman
A staff member and student learn together.

2)Faculty/Staff/Administrator-to-Student
  • Faculty/Staff/Adminsistrators mentor freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors
  • The adult and a student share life perspectives and grow together in faith, learning, and social arenas
  • The mentor offers experience and insights, prayer, and wisdom to a student
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Program History: The Fox Mentoring Program began in the spring of 2002 as a pilot program run by Student Life. After a "trial semester" with 40 participants, the program was ready to roll in the fall of 2002. In Spring of 2003 the Peer-to-Peer branch was developed and implemented with 16 participants. Currently, the program has a count of 46 total participants. Fox Mentoring is growing steadily, and always looking for ways to improve and expand.

Trainings: Mentors are required to attend a training session prior to meeting with their mentee. At the session, mentors receive The Fox Mentoring Manual and information on the following topics:
  1. Contact info. for their mentee
  2. What their role as a mentor is/is not
  3. Confidentiality
  4. Committment to the program and mentee
  5. How to balance energy
  6. Boundaries for the mentoring relationship
  7. Info. for the first meeting
  8. Suggestions for meeting activities
  9. List of mentoring resources such as books and websites

Contact Info:
Fox Mentoring Program Coordinator
503-554-2325
mentoring@georgefox.edu