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Scholastic Connections

Cindy Peterson
Director Scholastic Connections
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petersoc@augsburg.edu 

Scholastic Connections - Goals and Objectives

Goal: To form a mentoring community that recognizes, supports, challenges and inspires our students and ourselves.

Objectives
Objectives for New Mentors
Objectives for Continuing Mentors
  • Support students as they continue at Augsburg College
  • Frame the Big Questions: Who am I?  Where do I belong?  What are my gifts, skills and talents?  How can I best serve the world?
  • Assist in discerning vocation
  • Prepare students for life after Augsburg
  • Come to know and support each other

  • Establish relationship with your student

  • Begin asking the Big Questions


 
  • Deepen and broaden relationship with student
  • Assist student to discern his/her vocation
  • Career planning: student shadowing you, networking

 

Features of a Mentoring Community (Sharon Daloz Parks)

  • Provide a network of belonging
  • Ask big-enough questions
  • Encounters with “other”
  • Habits of the mind – Dialogue, critical thought, contemplative mind
  • Worthy Dreams (vocation)

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