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Are you interested in being a successful and well-prepared mentor or mentoring program manager? Calling faculty, administrators, mentoring program staff/leadership, and graduate students to participate in the Mentoring Institute’s new series of mentoring Micro-Credentials!
Three courses for mentors and mentees will help you:

  • Develop and apply a wide range of mentoring skills
  • Build and sustain high-quality mentoring relationships
  • Learn and develop as a well-prepared mentor or mentee
One course for mentoring program managers will help you:
  • Design, implement, and evaluate highly effective mentoring programs.
  • Develop a programmatic theory of change logic model
  • Develop a program proposal for stakeholders and funding agencies
You could earn up to four Micro-Credentials in mentoring. Sessions are delivered in the ‘mentoring way’ (Alred and Garvey, 2019) to promote participant autonomy, by an internationally recognized, award-winning team. For each MC:
  • Participants attend eight 2-hour synchronous highly interactive zoom webinars
  • Complete pre-session preparation tasks
  • Facilitators model and demonstrate key skills
  • Write post-session project-based work to demonstrate application

Hosted by

Dionne Clabaugh, EdD

Dionne Clabaugh, EdD

Robert Garvey, PhD

Robert Garvey, PhD

David Law, PhD

David Law, PhD

Sections

Micro-Credential 1: Mentoring Foundations - Key Skills, Ethics, and Cultural Competence in Mentoring
January 7 to February 28, 2025

  • Learn to build quality mentoring relationships
  • Mentoring skills, mentoring competencies, mentoring relationships

Micro-Credential 2: Mentoring & Mentoring Supervision in Action
March 4 to April 22, 2025

  • Explore and develop mentoring competences and mentoring structures
  • Mentoring supervision skills, models of mentoring supervision, institutional culture of mentoring

Micro-Credential 3: The Well-prepared Mentor and Working with the Dynamics of Mentoring
May 6 to June 24, 2025

  • Explore mentoring approaches, theories of development, and theories of change
  • Discuss developmental networks, mentee success, theory of change, intrinsic motivation, and self-directedness in mentoring relationships

Micro-Credential 4: The Well-prepared Program Manager
August 19 to October 21, 2025

  • Using a theory of change logic model, align institutional needs, theoretical constructs, and typology to achieve programmatic goals and outcomes
  • Design effective mentor/mentee development, assessment, and program evaluation

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