University at Buffalo (UB)
Associate Professor of Italian
Romance Languages and Literatures
lchiesa@buffalo.edu
Mentoring is one of the fundamental forms of generosity promoting the prosperity of life in the academic community; mentoring takes its shape from listening, talking, sharing, encouraging, and upholding each individual desire and challenge. Mentoring consists in supporting students’ aspirations and goals. In academia, many different circumstances can momentarily create difficulty, doubt and incomprehension, hence mentoring implies helping students to find their own paths on which to orient themselves and advance, amid the complexity of academic life.