The academic staff at the University of Navarra takes care of students, on an individual basis, through the personal academic mentoring, which every student has a right to and which is the duty of every lecturer, as well as an outstanding feature of the University.
Mentoring is a service that seeks to improve the students' academic performance and to facilitate their participation in college life, besides advising them on the career choices open to them and furthering their educational and cultural goals. Through mentoring education becomes personal and therefore more efficient.
Mentoring is not a circumstantial activity that aims at meeting a particular need at a given point in time. And it is by no means meaningful only when the student has serious academic needs. It is rather the channel for an ongoing relationship between faculty and students, which benefits both alike.
Faculty look after students by means of occasional interviews or through scheduled encounters that take place on a regular basis. Regularity is essential if mentoring is to be of any use.
The Undergraduate Tutor assigns mentors to each student. Freshers know who their mentor is through a letter they receive before the beginning of term. This letter, signed by the mentor himself, provides his e-mail. This way it is easy to arrange an interview on the very day term begins.
Every student has a right to avail himself freely of academic mentoring and to ask for a change of mentor, through the Undergraduate Tutor’s secretary, Ms. Roxana Castro, e-mail: destudios(at)tecnun.es
