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M is for Mentor: Five Tips for Building Successful Mentoring Relationships and Programs
RECORDED ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2024
Presenters:
Cathy Powers, Nurs ‘81, Cardiovascular Clinical Nurse Specialist, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Kirkwood, Mo.
Ahmoni Gonzalez, Arts student, Marquette University
Jacqueline Hackmon, Arts '16, Strategic Product Manager, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Steve Rushin, Jour '88, Hon '07, Author and Sportswriter
Mentoring. It seems to be a common theme in interviews, podcasts or discussions when individuals credit their professional or personal success. Mentoring has many mentor and mentee benefits, but how is success measured and what makes a good mentor or mentee? How can programs be created with productive and sustaining results? In 2013, the Marquette University Alumni Association piloted Marquette Mentors matching student mentees with alumni nationwide based upon major and career interest. It was met with overwhelming success. Today, Marquette Mentors is an international award recipient that’s recognized as the gold standard in higher education by the Council and Advancement for Support of Education (CASE). There have been more than 1,200 mentor-mentee matches with alumni mentors from Alaska to London.
Join current mentors and mentees in Marquette Mentors during National Mentoring Month to learn about their own mentoring experiences, including why there’s a mentor retention rate of more than 95 percent and mentees pledge to return as mentors following graduation. Don’t miss this session if you’re interested in creating valuable mentoring and mentee relationships, identifying a mentor or exploring a workplace mentor program.
More about this session
Ahmoni Gonzalez is a Marquette University junior in the Pre-Law Scholars Program with the intent to attend Law School following undergraduate studies. He’s serving as a mentee in Marquette Mentors and mentored by Harvey Anderson, Eng ’84, retired chief legal officer at HP. Ahmoni is involved in many extracurricular activities at Marquette, including the Criminology and Law Society, Mock Trial, Annex Bowling League, and the Marquette University Alumni Association Student Ambassador Program.
Jacqueline Hackmon, Arts '16, is a strategic product manager for Blue Cross Blue Shield in Chicago, Illinois. She has seven years of experience in product management and has previously worked for companies such as Brady Corporation and James Hardie Building Products. She originally joined Marquette Mentors as a mentee in 2016 and rejoined the program as mentor in 2021.
Steve Rushin, Jour '88, Hon '07, Steve Rushin is the author of six non-fiction books and a novel, as well as hundreds of columns and features for Sports Illustrated, to which he has filed stories from all seven continents, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica. His most recent book is Nights in White Castle: A Memoir, capturing his experience of new adulthood in the 80s.
In addition to the countless farflung locales he has reported from—Greenland, India, Indonesia—Rushin has covered all the nearflung locales to which sportswriters are routinely dispatched. He has attended nearly every major sporting event (Olympics, Super Bowl, World Cup) as well as most of the minor ones (English darts, Bassmaster fishing, competitive eating.) Rushin is a 1988 graduate of Marquette University, which awarded him an honorary doctor of letters in 2007. He has been a mentor in Marquette Mentors since the program's inception in 2013.