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| 2010-11 Mentor Program Class |
The Association of California Community Colleges (ACCCA) Mentor Program is a statewide activity whose purpose is to provide a personal and professional development experience for selected individuals who have demonstrated a potential for expanded leadership roles in their current, or future, responsibilities with the California Community College system. Participants develop competencies through participation in ACCCA Mentee leadership events held during the one-year program.
Activities
The ACCCA Mentee Retreat and other Mentor Program activities are heavily participation-oriented with an emphasis on skill building and collaborative learning. Each Mentee completes a learning contract, which has a strong leadership component, encouraging participants to immediately apply knowledge, principles, and skills acquired or enhanced through the ACCCA Mentor Program. Mentees are responsible for arranging at least four face-to-face meetings with their mentor.
Being a Mentor
The role of the Mentor is to serve as a guide, role model, colleague and expert to their Mentee. The Mentor guides the Mentee in the development and completion of their learning contract, exposes their Mentee to new and complex administrative tasks and processes, teaches their Mentee how to learn new administrative skills on their own campus, and introduces their Mentee to higher-level management systems and practices. Additionally, the Mentor frequently gives advice to their Mentee in the preparation of application materials and interviews for promotional community college administrative positions.
ACCCA Mentees and Mentors develop an excellent, caring network of highly competent professional colleagues in the State. Many of the relationships that developed when the program began in 1988 still flourish today.
Goals of the ACCCA Mentor Program
- To identify administrators, faculty and staff who have demonstrated a potential for expanded leadership roles in their current responsibilities with the California Community College system.
- To provide learning experiences to expand and enhance participant’s current leadership skills and abilities.
- To offer appropriate training for administrators.
- To provide participants with a network for career opportunities.
- To encourage Mentor Program participants to seek expanded leadership opportunities within their regions or the statewide system.
- To assure the availability of a diverse pool of skilled leaders for the future administrative needs of the California Community Colleges.
- To encourage the networking of participants inter-regionally in support of improved working relationships and communications across the state.
How Do I Apply To Become An ACCCA Mentee?
Applications for the 2011-2012 class will be available in September, 2010.
For more information, contact Shirley Short, ACCCA Mentor Program Chair. Call her at 916-558-2582 or email her at ShortS@scc.losrios.edu.
