UNM Mentoring Insititute: Mentoring Micro-Credentials

Advance Your Mentoring Practice. Strengthen Your Program Leadership.

The Mentoring Institute is proud to announce its comprehensive Mentoring Micro-Credentials Program—a professional development series designed to deepen mentoring expertise and elevate program management across sectors.

Whether you're a faculty member, undergraduate or graduate student, administrator, mentoring program leader, or professional from another industry, this program offers a transformative learning experience grounded in research, reflection, and real-world application.

Participants may earn up to four Micro-Credentials. Each Micro-credential will be granted upon the successful completion of two 8-week sections.

  • Live Sessions: Weekly, 2-hour synchronous Zoom sessions
  • Asynchronous Work: Pre-session preparation and post-session project-based assignments
  • Non-Sequential Modules: Participants may join the program at any desired section; however, the micro-credential will be awarded only after both sections are completed.

  • Up to 4 Micro-Credentials in Mentoring
  • Certificates of Completion for each course
  • 64 total instructional hours across the full series

  • Learn in The Mentoring Way (Alred & Garvey, 2019), which promotes autonomy, reflection, and community.
  • Engage with an internationally recognized, award-winning facilitation team
  • Apply your learning immediately through project-based work
  • Earn stackable credentials that demonstrate your mentoring expertise
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What You'll Learn

Skill Development
  • Active listening, ethics, feedback
  • Motivational insight & growth plans
  • Goal setting, questioning, etc.
Mentoring Relationships
  • Increase effectiveness in conversations
  • Build developmental networks
  • Create action plans
Program Impact
  • Improve mentoring & program assessment
  • Determine strategies & outcomes
  • Support professional growth
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