About AIM

“Every time they succeed, I succeed.”   

If this is your philosophy of teaching or being a colleague, then the All-Inclusive Mentoring (AIM) program, sponsored by Engage and the Center for Teaching and Mentoring, is for you. Mentoring is a key component of academic and professional success, and yet many members of our MTSU community may not know how to initiate or sustain meaningful mentoring relationships with colleagues or students.   

The Mission of AIM: To advance relationship-rich education at MTSU by investing in mentoring and providing faculty with targeted training and ongoing support. Drawing from the four principles that Felten and Lambert¹ say are necessary to nurture relationship-rich environments, our hope is that we can create a campus culture in which every student, faculty, and staff member will . . . 

• experience genuine welcome and deep care 

• be inspired to learn  

• develop a web of significant relationships   

• explore questions of meaning and purpose (17-18).   

During spring semester, AIM participants will: 

• complete readings to learn about best practices of mentoring 

• attend monthly meetings 

• create a Mentoring Action Plan.  

The following fall will find participants:  

• implementing Mentoring Action Plan supported by consultations with AIM facilitators and 

• partnering with the Center for Teaching and Mentoring to present panel workshops.  

 The program is open to full-time faculty. Participants completing all program requirements will earn a stipend of $750 with the possibility of future seed grant funding to implement their Mentoring Action Plans.