Hope A. Ballentine

Hope A. Ballentine, teaching associate professor and curriculum coordinator, Eleanor Mann School of Nursing. Ballentine also serves as co-director of the Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center.

Ballentine has served as a formal mentor for 38 Honors Students (24 as chair, 14 as committee member) since 2019. She finds it rewarding to work one-on-one with students while helping them develop an Honors project or thesis that reflects their personal passions. In addition, she enjoys developing personal relationships with students and watching them transform into professionals while serving as a reference, source for interview practice, resume reviewer and celebrator of their future accomplishments. Ballentine finds it rewarding to see students get the "internship of a lifetime" or admitted to the graduate school of their dreams after watching them work so hard to make it happen.

As the coordinator of Honors students at EMSON, Ballentine serves as a resource for students seeking a mentor and committee member and complete the required forms for thesis proposal and approval. She works with students and faculty mentors to make sure faculty mentors have what they need to effectively mentor students. Ballentine has also enjoyed leading the effort to make sure expectations for Honors students in our department are streamlined and consistent through the creation of departmental syllabi and rubrics for Honors projects and theses.