IBIT’s Spring 2024 mentoring program which involved 16 students and 12 mentors ended the year with a reception for mentors and mentees to network. The average impact rating of the program was 6.3 on a scale from 1 to 7 with 7 being the highest.
IBIT matches Temple University students with senior executive IT mentors based on students’ interests and career goals using a structured process to ensure regular engagement. The mentoring program runs each term and has, to-date, served 189 students from three different schools at Temple since spring 2020.
The high impact rating of 6.1 suggests that students and mentors are on average very positive about all aspects of the program. The highest rating was for the value of participation at 6.8, while the lowest rating of 5.79 was for enhancing professional network. However, this is still a positive result since both mentors and mentees contributed to the rating. The following comments illustrate the impact:
I was very nervous at first going into my first meeting but coming from my own experience, it was easier than I thought it was going to be to talk to my mentor and things just felt natural. I believe that I gained a lot of valuable knowledge and lessons from my mentor’s advice and experiences which makes me glad I did the program.
MENTEE
It’s fun giving guidance, especially surfacing career options the mentees may have not considered yet.
MENTOR
MENTORING PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
| Mentors | Mentees | Mentees |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Anania, Cigna (retired) Sondra Barbour, AGCO & Perspecta Chris Cera, Arcweb Technologies Craig Conway, FIS Kevin Dang, McKinsey & Company Larry Dignan, Constellation Insights Bruce Fadem, Wyeth (retired) Chris Kearns, Kyndryl Michael Luckenbill, Capgemini Neil Mundell, Cencora Sukumar Narayanan, CorVant Niraj Patel, Greystone Rich Rivara, Wave6 Dave Woodson, KPMG | Tyler Allen Sajjad Alloo Rhenece Andrew Nikitha Arramada Janice Augastine Duncan Carpenter James Carpenter Sarah D’Amico Victoria Doan Nahum Elias Nora Esack Adam Foster-Baird Jenna Fraioli Jonathan George Joseph Gorman Emily Greene | Evangelos Kamariotis Carly Krieger David Levit Veronica Li David Liang Aaron Markowitz Mia Myers Theresa Nguyen Alex O’Leary Alison Park Odalys Perez Victoria Phung Cole Roberts Kamilya Salikhova Nayana Santhosh Biko Smith Maya Smith |
Sondra Barbour, Board Member, AGCO & Perspecta is the chair of the Mentoring Program. Laurel Miller manages the mentoring program for IBIT.
For more details about the impact assessment, visit: https://ibit.temple.edu/impact/
