Department of Linguistics Mentoring Archive

Department of Linguistics

Mentoring Archive

A dynamic record of faculty mentoring and transformative student experiences in the BYU Department of Linguistics — capturing how faculty-student out-of-class interactions shape the growth, character, and professional trajectories of our students — office hours, research, lab work, study abroad, and other experiential learning.

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Two Archives, One Story

The mentoring archive is organized into two collections. Faculty members document their mentoring activities — experiential learning that has had a lasting impact on student and faculty development. Students reflect on transformative experiences with faculty in light of the Aims of a BYU Education.

Faculty Mentoring

Transformative mentoring outcomes

We ask that faculty members document mentoring activities such as coauthored research papers, presentations at conferences like ACES, AAAL or LSA, undergraduate or graduate research projects, study abroad, or even regular classroom or office hour meetings.  Through faculty perspectives, this archive depicts these 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.

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Student Experiences

Transformative experiences with faculty

We ask that students share how out-of-class mentored experiences — research, internships, study abroad, conference presentations, office hour conversations , etc, have shaped their development across the four BYU Aims: spiritually strengthening, intellectually enlarging, character-building, and lifelong learning & service. These entries can also be marked as private (for departmental records only) or for public--inclusion on this web archive and elsewhere. 

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Note about Archive Purpose

This archive and the private archive created through private entries were created to help the BYU Department of Linguistics document and preserve memory of the work of faculty mentors and the resulting impact on 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. We hope it highlights the strengths of our faculty members in terms of connecting with and strengthening individual students.

Once again, 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.

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