Mentoring Program

Mentors are influential people who have the power--through who they are and what they know--to help Elmhurst students reach their career goals. In the CBE Mentoring Program, each mentor is a business executive who is friend, role model, and career and business guide for a group of students. Recent mentors have included executives from Fortune 500 companies as well as entrepreneurs from smaller companies. You can learn more about this academic year mentors in the Mentor Profile page.

Each group of students meets with its mentor at least six times during the academic year to consider a wide range of business-related topics and activities. Discussions might cover workplace politics, business ethics, resume preparation, or what to expect in a first job. Activities might include a tour of the mentor's workplace, introduction to and meetings with others at the mentor's workplace, or meetings--arranged by the mentor--with individuals in a student's field of interest. Students find these professional contacts very valuable when the time comes to begin a formal job search.

To be eligible to participate in the program, students must have a minimum G.P.A. of 2.5 and agree to meet with their mentor for five of the six meetings. Individual mentoring groups decide on the time, place, and topic of their meeting groups. Two of the required meetings are an opening breakfast in September and a closing luncheon in April hosted by the Center for Business and Economics.

Students who are active participants in this program receive 0.25 pass/no pass course credit.

If you are interested in being considered for the CBE Mentoring Program, please complete an application and return it to 305 Lehmann Hall, by September 29. If you have any questions regarding the program, please direct them to:

Prof. Joan Vilim
Telephone: (630) 617-3454
Fax: (630) 617-6497
E-mail: joanv@elmhurst.edu

or

Prof. Harold Dahlstrand
Telephone: (630) 617-6481
Fax: (630) 617-6497
E-mail: dahlstrandh@elmhurst.edu