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Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) is a non-profit organization of volunteer counselors who provide free mentoring, education programs, workshops, and webinars to small businesses. [2] SCORE is a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) who administers a Congressional grant which provides SCORE with funding.
StudentMentor.org was founded in 2010 by Ashkon Jafari and Stephanie Bravo. According to a USA Today interview with Jafari, "The mentoring organization was launched because while students in grades K-12 have plenty of programs to find mentors, college students often don't have anyone to guide them. We know there is a huge need out there."
An army trainer mentors new soldiers. Mentorship is the patronage, influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. [1] A mentor is someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person. [2] In an organizational setting, a mentor influences the personal and professional growth of a mentee.
The International Mentoring Program (IMP) is a student-based program at Brown University that offers social, academic, and educational support to incoming international students. [1] The aim of the IMP is to assist incoming students in their transition to Brown University and the United States by providing each student with a mentor who ...
Peer mentoring in education was promoted during the 1960s by educator and theorist Paulo Freire: "The fundamental task of the mentor is a liberatory task. It is not to encourage the mentor's goals and aspirations and dreams to be reproduced in the mentees, the students, but to give rise to the possibility that the students become the owners of their own history.
Business coaching is a type of human resource development for executives, members of management, teams, and leadership. [18] It provides positive support, feedback, and advice on an individual or group basis to improve personal effectiveness in the business setting, many a time focusing on behavioral changes through psychometrics or 360-degree ...
ACBSP was founded in 1989 to accredit business schools with an emphasis on teaching and learning. [1] At the time, only 260 out of 2,400 schools of business had specialized professional accreditation, all from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Most or all of the AACSB accredited schools had an emphasis on ...
Champlain was founded in 1878 as Burlington Business School, opened by G.W. Thompson, to prepare young men for "the business cares and responsibilities of life." In 1884, when E. George Evans acquired the school, it became coeducational and changed its name to Queen City Business College. In 1905, it moved to Bank Street, and in 1910 it moved ...