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Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

The biggest thing I want to see is that people have the drive to succeed. If they can 'take it or leave it,' I don't do business with them. I enjoy mentoring. I like people who want to learn.

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.