About the Mentoring Partnership Project

Innovative and Sustainable Teaching Methods and Strategies to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education

The Center on Disability Studies (CDS) at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa is in the 2nd year of the Innovative and Sustainable Teaching Methods and Strategies (IST) project (www.ist.hawaii.edu).

Mentoring is one method IST plans to develop innovative and sustainable teaching methods and strategies. The Mentoring Partnership Project (MPP) incorporates faculty-student partnerships.

MPP will bring faculty and students together in social and formal settings, in person and online. Support will be provided for an online mentoring community, student self-determination, and partnership facilitation.

The goals of MPP are to promote accessibility, inclusion, retention, and matriculation for students with disabilities at the postsecondary level and to increase the knowledge, skills, and awareness of faculty members related to disability issues and creating inclusive classrooms.

MPP will research and provide information relating to how students with disabilities and faculty members mentor one another. Examples of such partnerships led to this promising research avenue.

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Learn more about the Center on Disability Studies (CDS), a University Center for Excellence, at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, at www.cds.hawaii.edu.