This document explains the nature of this program and offers descriptions of how it might be structured.
Mentors help students in several ways.
Mentors give advice and constructive feedback of the student's career goals, academic activities, and professional conduct. Mentors may offer formal and informal instruction, introductions to people who might be of help to the student, and opportunities to demonstrate the student's business skills. Students, even as seniors, rarely have access to managerial levels in sophisticated companies. The Mentor Program is intended to be a major source of information about business as it is practiced as well as to provide a role model for a business lifestyle that the student can emulate throughout his or her career. Students have opportunities to observe and interact with experts, receive encouragement, acquire knowledge and numerous professional skills, and save time by learning shortcuts and strategies normally understood by trial and error.