MENTORING & COUNSELING CELL – Moti Mahal College of Hotel Management

The College considers students’ mentoring and counseling to be of high priority. Thus, it provides the resources and the personnel needed to conduct academic advising and counseling. In order to resolve day to day academic problems of the students, mentors are appointed for a batch of 20 students, and they will monitor the respective students regularly, & will take the necessary steps to solve their problems. Mentors will make every effort to give effective guidance to students regarding academic matters. This is a continuous process till the end of academic career of the student. During the final semester of study students are provided proper career guidance.

Goal

To prepare the students academically and mentally fit to the hospitality industry.

The Objectives

To monitor the student’s regularity & discipline in the college.
To enable the parents to know about the performance & regularity of their wards.
Improvement of teacher-student relationship.
Counseling students for solving their problems and provide confidence to improve their quality of life.
Guiding students to choose right career path for job, higher studies, Entrepreneurship, etc.

The Practice

The teacher takes student’s attendance in every class during the first five minutes and the list of absentees is entered in the Absentees Register and absentee’s information will be posted to head of the department as well as to the parents every day.
If a student is absent for more than 5 days continuously then the class co-ordinator calls the parents of a student, enquires the reason and advises them to take care of their ward. Even after informing student’s parents, Class coordinator forwards the details of a student to the Principal for further action.
The Mentors prepare timely reports of every student for each section and send the information to the parents of defaulters through proper channel.
The Mentors meet the students associated with them once in every month. A separate mentoring and counseling hour is maintained for each class as part of their time table and the respective faculty meets the students in the said hour.
The Parents/Guardians of ‘poor attendee/performance students’ are called to meet the mentors and corrective and preventive measures are implemented for further improvement.
Each mentor maintains the entire student Information.
Periodic meetings are conducted by the Principal with mentors to review the punctuality and regularity of the students.
Every student participates in the events conducted in the college or other colleges with the prior permission of the concerned class coordinators.
Disciplinary Committee of the college promptly curbs the indiscipline in the campus.
Anti-Ragging Committee monitors the newly admitted students by frequently visiting the sensitive areas within the campus and outside the campus.
Additional duty is assigned to the faculty members to monitor the students from being affected by any sort of ragging in and around the campus.

Outcomes of the system

The attendance percentage of the students has increased to a greater extent.
The number of detainment of students has decreased consistently.
In course of direct communication between mentor and the student there was a good improvement in the teacher-student relationship.
The above effected in attaining a better academic performance.