Jean Rhodes Talks Mentorship and AI on LearningWell Radio

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Can artificial intelligence strengthen mentoring rather than weaken it? In a new episode of LearningWell Radio, Jean Rhodes, professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and director of the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring, joins reporter Mollie Ames to discuss college mentoring and its future in the age of AI.

In this episode, listeners will hear:

  • Whether AI can increase, rather than erode, the impact of mentoring for college students.
  • Why student trust is central to any effort to bring AI into mentoring relationships.
  • How Rhodes’s AI-integration strategy keeps the “human at the helm.”
  • How the approach is being tested in a large-scale randomized controlled trial across all four UMass campuses.

The conversation offers a timely look at how mentoring programs might adopt new technology without losing the human relationships at their core.

Listen now on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. The full episode page is available at LearningWell Magazine.