<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/magazine/spring-2023/close-and-personal-professors-go-beyond-teaching-mentor-and-encourage-students.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Up Close and Personal: Professors Go Beyond Teaching to Mentor and Encourage Students</title><excerpt>On the first day of class, religious studies professor Helen Rhee passes out cards and asks students to tell her something about themselves and how she can pray for them. “When I see them anywhere — in class, on a break, at lunch, or when we’re walking together — I ask them about what they’ve written,” she says. “I especially want to know their prayer requests. It’s important for me to translate what students tell me into a prayer for them.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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