KFASC MENTORING SYSTEM

        A mentor is more than an adviser. A mentor provides you with wisdom, technical knowledge, assistance, support, empathy and respect throughout, and often beyond, your graduate career. Mentoring helps students understand how their ambitions fit into graduate education, department life and career choices. An effective mentoring relationship develops over time. The student benefits from the mentor’s support, skills, wisdom and coaching. Later, both people deepen their working relationship, perhaps collaborating on projects in which the student develops into a junior colleague. After a while, the mentee may need some separation from the mentor to test his or her own ideas. This distancing is a sign that the mentoring relationship is maturing and providing the mentee with the skills needed to function independently. Finally, both mentee and mentor may redefine their relationship as one of equals, characterized over time by informal contact and mutual assistance, thus becoming true professional colleagues.

• To help undergraduate fresh students understand the challenges and opportunities present in the institution and develop a smooth transition to campus life.

• To counsel academically weak undergraduate first-year students and to play an important role in helping troubled students cope with academic, extra-academic and personal problems.

• To provide positive role models to first-year undergraduate students in the institution

• To proactively try to identify problems of the general student populace and to bring them to the notice of the concerned authorities.

• Ensuring regularity and punctuality of students through counselling sessions. The SMS attempts to track these objectives by carefully identifying those who can act as an anchor and guide for a fresh first year student or an academically weak student to bank upon.