Breakout Sessions
Note that the conference session recordings will be available to view until Monday, November 7, 2022.
8:45-9:45 am | Opening Remarks & Keynote Address
| Watch the Keynote Session Recording | Conference Program PDF Download |
10:00-10:45 am | Breakout Session I
Hope and Inspiration: Recruiting Marvelous Mentors for your Program
Presenter: Diane Lerma, PAC
Modality: In Person
In person: 100 PLXY
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
Why did you decide to go to college? Were you fortunate to have someone encourage you to dream big? These and other critical questions are the beginning of successful mentor recruitment. As the Mentor Coordinator for the Ascender Program at Palo Alto College, I was charged with recruiting fifty mentors from campus and the community. Their testimonies were so powerful that they are collected in a published a book entitled, "Catching Dreams: A Collection of Inspiring Mentor Stories".
Academic Success + Student Success + Authenticity = Organic Mentoring
Presenters: Liz Castillo, SPC & Dr. Mary Gentry, SPC
Modality: In Person
In person: 109 NLIB
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
In the spring of 2022 Mary Gentry, Assistant Professor and Kinesiology Program Director and Liz Castillo, Director of Student Success – First Year Experience united to infuse team building activities, storytelling, and most importantly, authenticity into a small EDUC class to foster a strong sense of belonging. Our initial goal was to foster a strong sense of belonging amongst the students. A pleasant surprise were the strong mentoring relationships that were formed. In this session we will discuss the process, from germinal idea to next steps and stretch goals.
Watch Castillo & Gentry Session Recording
Tiger PAWS: A Path to Educational and Professional Networks
Presenters: Stephanie Gibson, SPC & Jamie Miranda, SPC
Modality: Online
In person: 211 NLIB
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
This session will discuss funding and foundational steps for starting a college journal student editorial program, and the SEG scholarship process. A helpful checklist will be provided for those wanting to model this project. We will also feature student guest speakers who will share their success stories.
Watch Gibson & Miranda Session Recording Download Gibson & Miranda Session Handout
11:00-11:45 am | Breakout Session II
Creating an Online Platform to Connect with Students: Extending the Mentor’s Reach
Presenter: John Gomez, Our Lady of the Lake University
Modality: In Person
Modality: In Person
In person: 100 PLXY
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
We encourage active college mentors to record your career planning advice to an online platform for better outreach to students. In this presentation, we share how our college faculty cultivated connections by recording answers to mentees’ frequently asked questions (FAQs), and we discuss how this can encourage students coming forward and seeking developmental mentoring relationships. Recorded online information has the advantage for mentees of on-demand 24/7 access to career- and degree planning documents, and mentors see greater efficiency in disseminating our advice. We share lessons learned mentoring south Texas’ Hispanic population as a historically underrepresented group in the college setting.
HATCH - How Academic Targeted Coaching Helps
Presenter: Tara Daugherty, NLC
Modality: In person
Modality: In person
In person: 109 NLIB
Tract: Staff-Student Mentoring
Tract: Staff-Student Mentoring
Academic Coaching is targeted theoretical based process whereby you hone in on where a student is having issues and use various coaching methods to help them move through their academic challenges. Topics such as Time Management, Learning Strategies, Goal Setting and Follow Thru and Stress Management are the most common student concerns. Targeting these concerns with students and coaching them to success is the key to making them feel seen and heard along with meeting them where they are.
Reflections of a First-Time Faculty-Student Mentoring Lead
Presenter: Joshua Galat, PAC
Modality: Online
Modality: Online
In person: 211 NLIB
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
In this presentation, I would like to share some reflections from my experience as a first-time Faculty-Student Mentoring lead coordinator. After assuming the position in Fall 2021 at Palo Alto College, I’ve worked to recruit faculty and students to the program, make meaningful mentoring assignments, and facilitate interaction between mentors and mentees throughout the semester. This presentation will overview both successes and failures of my first year with a mind to sharing helpful tips and pointers I’ve learned through my experiences.
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
In this presentation, I would like to share some reflections from my experience as a first-time Faculty-Student Mentoring lead coordinator. After assuming the position in Fall 2021 at Palo Alto College, I’ve worked to recruit faculty and students to the program, make meaningful mentoring assignments, and facilitate interaction between mentors and mentees throughout the semester. This presentation will overview both successes and failures of my first year with a mind to sharing helpful tips and pointers I’ve learned through my experiences.
1:00-1:45 pm | Breakout Session III
Mentoring Portfolio: Creating a Comprehensive Reflection of the Practice of Mentoring Part One
Presenter: Dr. Tiera S. Coston, Xavier University of Louisiana
Modality: In Person
Modality: In Person
In person: 100 PLXY
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
Part one: A mentoring portfolio (MP) is a carefully curated collection of evidence integrated with thoughtful reflection that provides a comprehensive representation of the creator’s mentoring experience. The concept for the mentoring portfolio is closely modeled after the Educational Developer’s Portfolio (EDP), which was designed by a group of educational developers in Canada. Like the EDP, the mentoring portfolio is a tool used to articulate, reflect upon, and provide evidence of a mentor’s beliefs, values, ethical principles, practices, approaches, development, and impact. The mentoring portfolio can be used not only as tool for personal growth and career advancement, but can also serve as a foundation for the mentoring plans that are often required as a part of the proposals submitted to many funding agencies. Virtually anyone can develop a mentoring portfolio based on any type of mentoring relationship or in any context. In this workshop, the presenter will introduce the mentoring portfolio and walk participants through the process for developing their own. The workshop objectives are to: 1) introduce participants to the concept of a mentoring portfolio; 2) present the foundational components of a mentoring portfolio and how they work together to convey a mentoring experience; and 3) guide participants in developing a foundational component of the mentoring portfolio and provide a plan for them to continue building their own.
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
Part one: A mentoring portfolio (MP) is a carefully curated collection of evidence integrated with thoughtful reflection that provides a comprehensive representation of the creator’s mentoring experience. The concept for the mentoring portfolio is closely modeled after the Educational Developer’s Portfolio (EDP), which was designed by a group of educational developers in Canada. Like the EDP, the mentoring portfolio is a tool used to articulate, reflect upon, and provide evidence of a mentor’s beliefs, values, ethical principles, practices, approaches, development, and impact. The mentoring portfolio can be used not only as tool for personal growth and career advancement, but can also serve as a foundation for the mentoring plans that are often required as a part of the proposals submitted to many funding agencies. Virtually anyone can develop a mentoring portfolio based on any type of mentoring relationship or in any context. In this workshop, the presenter will introduce the mentoring portfolio and walk participants through the process for developing their own. The workshop objectives are to: 1) introduce participants to the concept of a mentoring portfolio; 2) present the foundational components of a mentoring portfolio and how they work together to convey a mentoring experience; and 3) guide participants in developing a foundational component of the mentoring portfolio and provide a plan for them to continue building their own.
Promoting Workforce Connections
Presenters: Beatrice Avila, SPC & Patricia Lamson, SPC
Modality: Online
In person: 109 NLIB
Tract: Career and Professional Mentoring
Tract: Career and Professional Mentoring
Career mentoring and student preparation to establish students for a successful workforce career. To include social media, networking with top chosen individuals in the profession, classroom activities, and real-world scenarios. Providing students with the tools and resources to succeed upon completing their academic degree or certificate. Promoting leadership speakers who inspire students to reach the next academic or professional level of success. Incorporating guidance and personalization to achieve student confidence, giving students the opportunities to make good choices.
Best Practices in Mentoring successes and challenges
Presenters: Zakia Ibaroudene, NLC & Nacer Ibaroudene, NLC
Presenters: Zakia Ibaroudene, NLC & Nacer Ibaroudene, NLC
Modality: Online
In person: 211 NLIB
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
As a professor I have the privilege to mentor many students. I love having the ability to impact my students in a positive manner and reinforce good habits that help them to be successful in school and life for the future. I still have students that graduated previously, contact me saying how even small pieces of advice or support has allowed them to change their life and achieve goals they never thought possible. Furthermore, in this presentation Nacer Ibaroudene a tutor at NLC and I will be reviewing the sort of strategies and best practices for mentors to help their mentee.
2:00-2:45 pm | Breakout Session IV
Mentoring Portfolio: Creating a Comprehensive Reflection of the Practice of Mentoring Part Two
Presenter: Dr. Tiera S. Coston, Xavier University of Louisiana
Modality: In Person
Modality: In Person
In person: 100 PLXY
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
Part two: A mentoring portfolio (MP) is a carefully curated collection of evidence integrated with thoughtful reflection that provides a comprehensive representation of the creator’s mentoring experience. The concept for the mentoring portfolio is closely modeled after the Educational Developer’s Portfolio (EDP), which was designed by a group of educational developers in Canada. Like the EDP, the mentoring portfolio is a tool used to articulate, reflect upon, and provide evidence of a mentor’s beliefs, values, ethical principles, practices, approaches, development, and impact. The mentoring portfolio can be used not only as tool for personal growth and career advancement, but can also serve as a foundation for the mentoring plans that are often required as a part of the proposals submitted to many funding agencies. Virtually anyone can develop a mentoring portfolio based on any type of mentoring relationship or in any context. In this workshop, the presenter will introduce the mentoring portfolio and walk participants through the process for developing their own. The workshop objectives are to: 1) introduce participants to the concept of a mentoring portfolio; 2) present the foundational components of a mentoring portfolio and how they work together to convey a mentoring experience; and 3) guide participants in developing a foundational component of the mentoring portfolio and provide a plan for them to continue building their own.
Unleashing the GENIE: Invitation to Become Faculty Cultural Navigators
Presenter: Patricia Ferguson, DSO
Modality: In Person
In person: 109 NLIB
Tracts: Faculty-Student and Staff-Student Mentoring
Tracts: Faculty-Student and Staff-Student Mentoring
This presentation introduces the Global Engagement Network for International Education (GENIE) as one of the latest programs from the Office of International Programs for domestic and international Alamo Colleges students to engage in multicultural experiences. Faculty are invited to become Faculty Cultural Navigators who will serve as the bridge for connecting our students with students from foreign university partner institutions. Faculty Cultural Navigators develop Virtual Multicultural Programs (VMPs) with foreign faculty partners that focus on themes to develop specific global competences from the Alamo Global Learner Pathway. Alamo Colleges students participating in a series of three VMPs during the semester are eligible to earn the specific Alamo Global Learner Cornerstone Badge offered that semester.
Culturally Responsive Faculty-Student Mentorship
Presenter: Veronica Luna, NVC
Modality: Online
Modality: Online
In person: 211 NLIB
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
Tract: Faculty-Student Mentoring
Previous studies affirm that Students of Color benefit from faculty mentors who address cultural issues and draw on mentee's identities using an asset-based approach. Informed by culturally-relevant teaching (Gay, 2000) and a class survey administered in a diverse student development course, this session will share culturally-responsive mentorship principles, including ethic of care and cultural awareness. The session will also highlight self-reflection practices to explore how our multiple social identities, (un)conscious biases, and internalized Eurocentric academic norms may inhibit authentic, transformative, caring mentoring relationships with underrepresented students.
