Fairleigh Dickinson University
285 Madison Avenue
M-MS0-09
Madison, NJ 07940

Phone: 201 - 692- 2831

Field-Based Internship Program

Mentoring has a lengthy, honorable and validated history.

"The story of Mentor comes from Homer's 'Odyssey'. When Odysseus, king of Ithaca, went to fight in the Trojan War, he entrusted the care of his household to Mentor, who served as teacher and overseer of Odysseus's son, Telemachus."

Dale Wenninger (2002). Mentoring, the full story, para. 5. [World Wide Web page]. Available, 10/25/02: http://www.amya.org/mentoring01.html