A dynamic record of faculty mentoring and transformative student experiences in the BYU Department of Linguistics — capturing how faculty-student out-of-class interactions through office hours, research, lab work, study abroad, or other experiential learning shape the growth, character, and professional trajectories of our students.
The mentoring archive is organized into two collections. Faculty members document their mentoring activities — experiential learning opportunities that have a lasting impact on student and faculty development. Students reflect on transformative experiences with faculty/professors in light of the BYU Aims of a university education.
Transformative mentoring outcomes
Document mentoring activities such as coauthored papers, presentations at venues like ACES, AAAL or LSA, or undergraduate or graduate research projects. This archive tracks student-faculty out-of-class interactions and their impact on student growth and trajectories and on faculty motivation and development. Entries can be public or marked private for departmental records only.
Transformative experiences with faculty
Students share how out-of-class mentored experiences — research, internships, study abroad, conference presentations, office hour conversations — shaped their development across the four BYU Aims: spiritually strengthening, intellectually enlarging, character-building, and lifelong learning & service.
This archive was created to help the BYU Department of Linguistics document and preserve memory of the work of faculty mentors and the resulting transformative experiences of students. It serves the department's reporting needs, aids in faculty reflection for the purposes of their own professional development, and allows students to tell others about transformative experiences they have had with Department faculty members.
Entries can be public or private at the contributor's discretion. Public entries appear in the open archive; private content is reserved for departmental review.