Programs

The Faculty and Staff for Student Excellence (FASE) Mentoring Program pairs first-year students with upper-class peer mentors to help them make a successful academic and social transition to college life.

Mentors support their protégés in a variety of ways, from connecting them with campus and community resources to helping them stay motivated during their critical first year. To participate in FASE students must first become a protégé. 

Program goals

• Provide academic and career support by pairing IU faculty, staff, and student mentors with students who need help in navigating the campus environment.
• Bring students, faculty, and staff together in programs designed to help students enhance and apply academic skills and strategies for college success, career development, and life-long learning;
• Offer students high-quality peer mentoring, as well as faculty and staff mentoring relationships.
• Connect students to people, services, and information that directly enhance their college living and learning experiences and promote future personal and professional success.
• Create a supportive environment during the freshmen-year experience.

The FASE Mentoring for Military-Connected Students program pairs veterans, current service members, and other military-connected students with military-connected mentors as a way to assist students in navigating through higher education and to help students make a successful academic and social transition from their military or home environments to a college campus.

Mentors support their protégés in a variety of ways, from directing them to existing resources offered on and off campus to keeping them motivated during their first critical year of college. In addition, protégés have opportunities to participate in several FASE Mentoring events throughout the academic year. 

This program seeks to enrich military connected students mentally, emotionally, and academically.

Program goals

• Provide academic and career support by pairing IU faculty, staff, and student mentors with students who need help in navigating the campus environment.
• Bring students, faculty, staff, and units such as the Center for Veteran and Military Students together in programs designed to help students enhance and apply academic skills and strategies for college success, career development, and life-long learning.
• Offer students high-quality peer mentoring, as well as faculty and staff mentoring relationships with emphasis and expertise in the unique needs of the veteran, current service member, and military connected student community.
• Connect students to people, services, and information that directly enhance their college living and learning experiences and promote future personal and professional success.
• Create a supportive environment during the first-year experience.

The Faculty and Staff for Student Excellence Advisory Board will serve to complement all Mentoring Services and Leadership Development services and initiatives and represent a comprehensive and developmental approach to understanding and enhancing the quality of undergraduate life and learning with an emphasis on leadership development. We will encourage students, faculty, and staff to participate in a variety of initiatives supporting personal, social, cultural, academic, leadership, and professional growth. Finally, through unique contributions to the campus community and to student life, the FASE Advisory Board will complement university efforts to create a stronger and more diverse campus community, better prepare students for life and work in a diverse and global society, and support a common future founded in enhanced achievement and success for all.

Sponsored events

Fall

• Fall Kickoff
• Classroom Secrets Faculty Panel
• Stress Free Zone Stress Relief Progrm
• Homecoming Tailgate
• Faculty-Student Etiquette Networking and Etiquette Program

Spring

• Martin Luther King Jr. - Cover Bloomington Community Service Project
• Professional Career Dinner Symposium
• Be the Match Registration
• Little 500 BBQ
• Spring Recognition Program

Strong mentoring relationships can play a major role in a student’s academic and professional success. The Faculty Mentoring Initiatives (FMI) Program connects sophomore, junior, and senior students with IU faculty, staff, alumni, and community leaders for guidance, support, and meaningful connection throughout the academic year.

Mentors and protégés decide when and how they’ll connect—by email, phone, in person, or at program events—and can also participate in group activities with campus partners.

Program Goals

• To challenge students intellectually, direct them to helpful campus resources and, in some cases, offer opportunities to participate in outside research opportunities.
• To help students achieve a sense of engagement and belonging at IUB.
• To expose students to new ideas and perspectives.
• To enhance student retention and persistence to graduation

Become a faculty mentor

Faculty mentors help students build confidence, navigate college, and prepare for life beyond IU. By sharing your experience, encouragement, and perspective, you can make a meaningful impact on a student’s academic and personal journey.

The Mentor Apprenticeship Program (MAP) is a two-semester intensive training initiative facilitated by the FASE Mentoring Program that gives first-year students at IUB opportunities to enhance their mentoring, teamwork, and leadership skills. Upon completion of MAP, students successfully acquire skill sets to help them excel in both mentoring and student leader positions.

Program goals

• Ensure FASE protégés and first-year students have opportunities to learn about the skills necessary to be a successful mentor.
• Encourage and strengthen future leaders.
• Offer networking opportunities within FASE