Getting your fellow mentors on board

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Why do all mentors have to have similar philosophies in mentoring?

Inconsistent mentoring philosophies drive students away (we lost at least four a few years ago on this). They don't have to be identical, but they can't be too disparate. If you don't have a common purpose, you don't have a team.

Originally Posted by mathking

I do agree with this. Think of inconsistent in terms of incompatible...

I've been trying to compose an answer. ^^This is what I was going to say, though I would not have been as eloquent. The most charitable explanation of the issue is that we had different (incompatible) ideas of what "inspiring STEM 'n such" means.