A Teacher’s Heart

The primary characteristic of Redemption’s faculty—your mentors—is that they each possess a teacher’s heart. This means they listen and continue to talk with each other about discovering new best practices for listening, guiding, and encouraging. They personally nurture your growth and speak into your unique ministries. Mentors personally invest in each student’s understanding and skill as they demonstrate love for the Lord and for each other.

Mentor-Professor Qualifications

The primary qualification for Redemption Seminary mentor-professors is an accredited earned doctoral degree (such as a PhD, DMin, or DEdMin). The degree must be related to the subject matter that they will be teaching. Redemption Seminary will determine if the candidate will be a good fit with Redemption’s educational model. In some cases, particular Redemption courses or training may be required to become a mentor-professor. For example, to align with the curriculum, a mentor-professor candidate with a doctorate in theology who has not used Logos Bible Software would have to become proficient with the software to be approved to mentor students. Redemption Seminary offers courses to provide such competencies.

Redemption Seminary students who wish to become mentor-professors can enroll in forthcoming doctoral programs offered by Redemption Seminary (such as the DEdMin). (Redemption doctoral programs are on Redemption’s long-range plan but have not started any development and don’t have any target date for being offered yet.)

Setting Your Own Hours

As a mentor-professor, you have the flexibility to select the courses, the terms, and the time slots that you want to be available to mentor. For instance, if you want summers off, great! You just won’t offer mentoring session options during those terms. You can choose to mentor during the day while the kids are at school, or just in the evenings. Students choose you based on your faculty bio and what best fits their schedule.

Mentoring sessions are intended to be entirely dedicated to understanding, assessing, and guiding your students. As such, there is no additional time required for grading, paper correction, etc.

Compensation

Redemption Seminary is committed to paying mentors sufficiently to compensate them for the time dedicated to investing in each student relationship. Mentor-professors are paid $150 per student per term for their first ten students and then their compensation is increased to $200 per student per term. This equates to approximately $35 per hour, which includes time for mentor training and contributions to curriculum improvement. The specifics of compensation are all contained in the faculty handbook, which can be requested if you are seriously interested in becoming a mentor-professor.

Training and Support

Mentor-professors embody Redemption’s core value of encouragement. Redemption wants its faculty to continually grow in their knowledge of their subject matter, ability to help others grow, and status within their field.

Each academic term includes seven weeks for mentor sessions and one week called “Faculty Week.” During this Faculty Week, mentor-professors can learn from each other and contribute to curriculum improvements. An associate dean is assigned to each mentor-professor and meets regularly with them to review their mentor sessions and offer advice and guidance for improvement. Milestones to encourage progress are used for students as well as mentor-professors. When it comes to perpetual growth and improvement we practice what we teach.

Request Faculty Handbook

All mentor applicants receive the faculty handbook when they apply. If you are not ready to apply but still want to review the faculty handbook please let us know by submitting this form.