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Teachable Moments: The importance of mentors

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For South Carolina Public Radio, I'm Dr. Rénard Harris from the College of Charleston. This is Teachable Moments, a minute of education for students and parents.

Working with a mentor in college is invaluable and will benefit students long after they graduate. My colleague, Tom Martin, founder of the Martin Center for Mentorship at the College of Charleston, says mentoring isn’t just something for students, or recent graduates – it’s a lifelong process.

He has found that most of the responsibility for successful mentoring falls on the mentee, not the mentor. He advises students to listen actively to the advice the mentor offers and bring something meaningful to the relationship to foster a successful mentorship.

For the College of Charleston, I’m Dr. Rénard Harris.