Women Investing in and Guiding Students (WINGS)
Eight-month college-to-career mentoring program




PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Women's Leadership and the Center for Women and Work, WINGS is a college-to-career mentoring program designed to link selected Rutgers female students with successful professional women as mentors.

The goals of the WINGS program are to: Enable undergraduate women to participate in a mentoring relationship with well-established career women Enhance student understanding about workplace culture, organizational structure and work/life balance issues through relationships with mentors Provide undergraduates an opportunity to explore a field of interest through exposure to a well-established career woman in that field Expose undergraduate women to career options and role models through the mentoring relationship Provide successful professional women opportunities to guide and give back to a diverse group of students

WINGS program takes place over one academic year, and each corporate sponsor holds 5 to 7 events, depending on the company. In addition, mentors and mentees set up times for one-on-one sessions at their convenience. Many mentor-mentee relationships last beyond the program year.