What is the mentoring process in Parvatibai Chowgule College?

Mentoring process is a face-to-face interaction in which a faculty member provides guidance to a student. The mentoring process requires that the mentor and mentee work together to reach specific goals and to provide each other with sufficient feedback to ensure that the goals are reached. The mentoring relationship is formed outside of regular classroom activity. The mentors if needed shall direct the mentees to other support services. For example, if a mentee who is working on a project shares that they need help in writing, the mentor may direct them to the Writing Centre, or if the mentee is having any difficulty or confusion about career or personal life, they may be directed to the Career and Personal Counselling Centre. Since the college believes in heterogeneity, the mentees are provided with mentors who are from different subject fields . The interaction between the mentor and mentee touches upon different topics, and there is give and take of knowledge/information. Mentors discuss the mentees performance in various assessments, completion of credits and about any other academic issues faced by them. The mentors also keep a track of the targets set by the mentees. Target setting is a process in which each mentor and the mentee sit together to discuss the expected goals to be achieved in each course and draw a study plan for the same. Target setting helps the mentee to review themselves on time spent on each course and the resulting outcome, and lead them to improve their scores. This process in turn helps the students to successfully make a study plan. Mentoring During the Pandemic The pandemic necessitated that mentoring takes place in an online mode with homogenous group of students. Faculty from within the department divided the students amongst themselves. Meetings were conducted through g-meet and students who could/did not attend the meet were contacted through various means like phone call, WhatsApp, telegram and emails. Mentors helped students resolve issues/queries pertaining to college by providing necessary information.