MISSION STATEMENT
In the President's 2001 Conference Message, Dr. Doreen Bowen Hilton sees the NAMHE as established upon a solid interdisciplinary base for the purpose of encouraging a multidimensional information sharing among the participating members and the general public. In tune with this message, the membership is open to qualified individuals from various works of life. Specifically, scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students from different domains and disciplines such as business, education, government and law, natural science, humanities, psychology and mental health, social work, and sociology, who are enthusiastic and committed to any form of mentoring. As the NAMHE progresses through the 21st century it hopes to build a vast array of knowledge in the dimensions of research, theory, and practice and to develop into a formidable medium or educational resource hub of mentoring programs.
Also, the NAMHE places emphasis on the dimension of student mentoring. The University College within the College of Arts and Sciences at Fayetteville State University may be credited with sewing the seed that produced the NAMHE. Through the University College dynamic programs and brochures, we were able to appreciate the importance of and the need for creating channels of communication for the purpose of addressing student mentoring among other concerns. Some documented and expressed experiences of students may well be regarded as the crucial data that fed the notion of conferences within the the NAMHE auspices. In view of this, developing views regarding quality mentoring services to student, is considered an important mission of this organization.