Mentor Central
CASE Mentor Central is the place where advancement professionals connect and establish mentor/mentee relationships to foster professional and personal growth and development.

Be an Inspiring Mentor
Article Serving as a mentor is an honor but the role comes with great responsibility, says an entrepreneur.

Win-Win-Win
CURRENTS Article This article explores the different ways that institutions large and small do student-alumni mentoring programs and the benefits that the students, alumni, institutions, and represented fields reap.

Follow These Essential LinkedIn Etiquette Rules
Article To avoid LinkedIn faux pas, “tailor your message, customize your posts and nurture relationships with people you know,” says one social media maven.

Be More than Your Title at Conferences
Article It’s important to represent more than your job title at conferences, says a leadership expert.

What to Consider before Becoming a Mentor
Article It can be rewarding to be a mentor. Still, managers can’t take every young upstart under their wings. They must be discerning for the relationship to prove successful.

Moving Students into the Advancement Pipeline
Product This webinar offers a blueprint for grooming students for success in the advancement profession and provides a map for mentoring programs in order to grow an advancement pipeline. Participants receive materials that will help them create their own student advancement internship programs. This multimedia file is a recording of a webinar originally presented June 6, 2012. The webinar is part 3 of a three-part Advancement Staffing Webinars series.

Office Space: Mentoring Matters
CURRENTS Article In this article, Raina Lenney discusses the role a mentor can play in your career, what a person should consider when looking for a mentor, how to go about looking for a mentor, and how having mentors has been a benefit to her personally and professionally.

Office Space: Everyone On Board
CURRENTS Article Creating a process for new employees to feel connected to the school can be integral to their success.

Talent Sprouts
CURRENTS Article Development offices across the world are in need of more suitable candidates. Students are a convenient resource just waiting to be tapped.

Career Path: One for All and All for One
CURRENTS Article Ask professionals in almost any industry, and many will say they couldn’t have gotten where they are without the steadying hand and experienced wisdom of a mentor. This column explores the power of the mentor-protégé relationship and how mentoring changes us--both personally and professionally.

AdvanceWork: New Recruits
CURRENTS Article Students can’t pursue a degree in advancement, so how can campuses recruit them to the profession? Practitioners suggest institutions develop formal advancement internship programs or hire student workers. A third option is CASE’s Association of Student Advancement Programs, which provides networking and leadership development opportunities to promote student involvement in education advancement.

Manager's Portfolio: My Own Worst Nightmare
CURRENTS Article A college foundation executive concludes that mentoring is a boss's most important responsibility after reflecting on her early work experiences and realizing she resembles a former supervisor who didn't give credence to staff members' ideas or value their enthusiasm.