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Mentoring has a high impact on industry and students

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.

2023-2024 Mentoring Program Reception

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

MentorsMenteesMentees
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/


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