Mentor

I started college teaching at Empire State, then a sparkling new branch of SUNY.  We had to invent or modify our own programs. 

In 1973 we helped pioneer individualized programs and we granted credits for life learning. In a few years we jumped into computers and distance learning etc. 

Faculty members had the usual titles on the unseen payroll: full professor, associate professor, etc. But officially we were called mentors.  I tried to get mentors switched to oracles, but the administration would not even give us sages.