Conference Session

WIP II

Collection

FYEE 2025 Conference

Authors

Olukemi O. Akintewe, University of South Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity, FYEE 2025

An Effective Mentorship Structure for Student Success inHigher EducationIntroductionMentoring practices play an essential role in students’ academic success and retention, especiallyfor women [1-5]. A positive and significant relationship was determined between mentees’academic self-efficacy and academic performance, as well as their self-regulated learning [6-8].Concurrently, a sense of connectedness or belonging to a campus community is also a criticalfactor in academic achievement and retention [9, 10]. The mentor’s self-efficacy cansignificantly impact the success of the mentoring relationship and the mentee's self-perception.Alternatively, ineffective mentoring can occur due to a lack of training, culturally responsivepractices