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Episode 37

Mentorship Meets AI with Jean Rhodes, University of Massachusetts Boston

October 27th, 2026

28 mins 10 secs

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About this Episode

On this episode of LearningWell Radio, Jean Rhodes, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, joins us for conversation about her expertise—mentorship in college—and its future in the age of AI. Is it possible, we ask her, for the technology to boost, rather than erode, the impact of mentoring and, critically, student trust?

As the director at the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring, Dr. Rhodes is responsible for developing an AI-integration strategy for mentorship that she says keeps the “human at the helm.” Today the approach is being rolled out in a large scale, randomized control trail across all four campuses in the UMass system.

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