UNCG Guarantee Mentoring
UNCG Guarantee offers it's scholars an opportunity to graduate debt free. However, even for our high achieving scholars the life transitions that come with navigating college as a low-income, and often first-generation college student, prove challenging at the least. It is for that reason we call on the UNCG Community to join the support system we surround our student with by becoming a Guarantee Mentor.
Your service as a Guarantee Mentor allows our students a connection not only to the UNCG community but to the greater Greensboro community and beyond. Your life experiences enrich our scholar's worldviews and cultivate curiosity for diverse thought. In addition, you have the opportunity to learn and grow with them as you develop a genuine relationship that inspires and encourages the supportive culture of UNC Greensboro and the UNCG Guarantee Program.
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Responsibilities
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Make a minimum one academic year commitment to developing and maintaining a mentor relationship with a Guarantee Scholar
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Meet with mentee monthly and communicate weekly to establish a relationship and to support mentee in goals for success
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Assist mentee in solving problems that interfere with mentee’s academic or personal success at the UNCG
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Attend Mentor Orientation (Late July) and Guarantee Mixer (Aug. 10th) before being matched to a mentee.
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Attend Mentor Meet Ups as able (ongoing mentor support sessions).
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Submit monthly meeting reports and other information as requested by program staff.
Benefits
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​​​Achieve personal growth through practicing interpersonal skills.
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Become more self aware.
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Improve their self-esteem and sense of purpose
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Gain a better understanding of other cultures and develop a greater appreciation for diversity
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Opportunity to put your interpersonal skills to practice.
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​Widen your understanding of the diverse undergraduate experiences at UNCG. Very beneficial to our faculty and staff.
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Increase your intercultural competence.
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The chance to be a part of a young leaders journey to the make dreams reality!
Successful Mentors Are...
Effective mentors recognize that relationships take time to develop and that communication is a two-way street. They are willing to take time to get to know their mentees, to learn new things that are important to their mentees (music, styles, philosophies, etc.), and even to be changed by their relationship.
PATIENT
Effective mentors balance a realistic respect for the real and serious problems faced by their mentees with optimism about finding equally realistic solutions. They are able to make sense of a seeming jumble of issues and point out sensible alternatives.
ABLE TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE
Most people can find someone who will give advice or express opinions. It’s harder to find someone who will suspend judgment and listen. Mentors often help simply by listening, asking thoughtful questions and giving mentees an opportunity to explore their own thoughts with a minimum of interference. When people feel accepted, they are more likely to ask for and respond to good ideas.
FREE OF JUDGEMENT
Mentors should not approach the mentee with the attitude that their own ways are better or that participants need to be rescued. Mentors who convey a sense of respect and equal dignity in the relationship win the trust of their mentees and the privilege of being advisors to them.
RESPECTFUL OF AUTONOMY
Effective mentors can feel with people without feeling pity for them. Even without having had the same life experiences, they can empathize with their mentee’s feelings and personal problems.
EMPATHETIC
Courtesy of MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership.
Mentors have a genuine desire to be part of other people’s lives, to help them with tough decisions and to see them become the best they can be. They have to be invested in the mentoring relationship over the long haul to be there long enough to make a difference.