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Browsing by Subject "mentoring"

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    Changing Adolescent Healthy Living Behavior Through Mentoring
    (University of Minnesota Extension, 2014-10) Conway, Judith; Olson, Carrie Ann; Jeffers, Brent
    Research has shown that quality mentoring programs have been associated with helping young people navigate through life‘s experiences and challenges. Over the last 20 years, obesity among young people has been on the rise in the United States causing a concern for society, including the life challenge it creates for the young person. The obesity rise has been attributed to many factors including lack of personal role models that encourage exercise. Studies show that increased physical activity has consistently related to improvements in self-esteem, self-concept, depressive symptoms, and anxiety and stress (Calfas, K.J. and Taylor, WC., 1994). In southwest Minnesota, using mentoring as a program strategy to address this issue, a ten-week afterschool Science and Movement (S.A.M.) 4-H club was designed utilizing a new volunteer audience of college health science students as mentors. The objectives for youth mentee participants in this research study focused on healthy living, exposure to higher education, and community awareness. Program design from the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development partnered with Southwest Minnesota State University Health Science department, local family fitness center and local middle school. Qualitative evaluations and data conclude that program objectives were met. The implication of study shows that young people desired to make a healthy living behavior change based on the positive relationships built with their college mentor. Anecdotal evidence from mentor evaluations concludes that utilizing mentoring as a service-learning strategy became a powerful way to give deeper meaning to a college student‘s educational experience.
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    Evaluation of the Farm Beginnings Mentorship Program
    (2002) Fischbach, Melissa
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    Keys to Quality Youth Development
    (St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Extension Service, 1999) Almquist, Patricia; Brekke, Barbara; Croymans, Sara R.; Fruechte, Kari; Matlack, Mary; McAndrews, Betty; Morreim, Patricia; Ogg-Graybill, Jolie; Piehl, Barbara; Walker, Joyce; Zurcher, Tom
    Outlines keys and the premise for relationship-building between youth and their mentors.
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    Reflections on the Development of Intercultural Competence: A Mixed Methods Study with Undergraduate Seniors at the University of California, Santa Cruz
    (2022-08) Swaim, Lisa
    This mixed-methods study sampled students in the transitional and intercultural orientation stages of the Intercultural Development Continuum, using the Intercultural Development Inventory, and then sought to understand each participant’s self-analysis of what intercultural competence development meant to them and what contributed most to their intercultural development. Student participants in this study acknowledged the importance to their intercultural development of the following university experiences and practices: curriculum, programs and organizations, living and learning communities, and leadership development programs. They highlighted the importance of intense shared experiences including high-impact educational practices such as short-term study abroad programs, field work, and internships. Students also credited mentorship and naturalistic engagement with others from different cultural backgrounds, both in childhood and within university life. Several students also discussed how their identity as part of a minoritized group within their community helped them to empathize with other minoritized individuals and reflect on intercultural learning more broadly. Those who scored in Acceptance and Adaptation had intense interpersonal experiences that forced them to engage and reflect in certain ways—even if they were uncomfortable. These experiences, however, were supported by mentors and guided reflection activities that allowed for students to sit with and learn from their discomfort. The lived experiences of students in this study demonstrate that students who scored further along the developmental continuum were characterized by their repeated seeking out challenging intercultural experiences, and a desire to engage with intercultural learning and growth. For students positioned further on the Intercultural Development Continuum, intercultural engagement was both challenging and fulfilling. The discovery of high-impact, high-intensity intercultural practices at home is important to intercultural development, as reported by students who score in transitional or intercultural positions on the Intercultural Development Continuum. Findings from this study may encourage educators to develop and encourage participation in these types of practices on and near U.S. campuses. These local high-impact, high-intensity program opportunities may broaden the availability of intercultural learning opportunities for all students, not just those who can afford to study, research, or intern abroad. These programs, however, appear to be most effective when they are interpersonally intense and provide support and mentoring for students.
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    Transforming the University of Minnesota: Preliminary Recommendations of the Task Force on Undergraduate Reform: Student Support
    (University of Minnesota, 2005-12-12) Maple, Kate; Wright, Robin
    To help achieve an outcomes-driven, student-centered approach to undergraduate education and support, we recommend that the University develop an approach that will provide campus-wide coordination and ensure accountability for student support programs and functions. This approach should also develop outcomes, gather data, and assess effectiveness, for all aspects of undergraduate education, support, and service. Together with data relevant to other facets of the University’s mission, this assessment plan and resulting data should drive the University’s decisions about funding, continuation of current programs, development of new programs, assignment of space, new construction, hiring, and other resources.