{"id":21592,"date":"2013-03-26T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=21592"},"modified":"2013-03-26T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:53:07","slug":"program-seeking-mentors-for-first-year-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/03\/program-seeking-mentors-for-first-year-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Program seeking mentors for first-year students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/m-pic-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11099\" title=\"Brock University Mentorship Plus\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/m-pic-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Brock University Mentorship Plus\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Senior students are needed to show incoming Brock students the proverbial ropes of university life.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mentorship Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/alumni\/connect\/mentorship-plus\" target=\"_blank\">The Mentorship Plus program<\/a> is seeking senior student mentors who can help first-year students make the transition successfully from high school to university.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is to recruit enough mentors to be matched with 500 first-year students.<\/p>\n<p>This year, 250 senior mentors were matched with first-year students through the program but Jackie Crawford, Mentorship Plus co-ordinator, expects the need to double for the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Mervin, <a title=\"Brock News Story\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=15400\" target=\"_blank\">a kinesiology student who participated in Mentorship Plus last year,<\/a> talked about academic matters such as exams and assignments with her mentor, as well as their lives in general.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The transition to university from high school was really different,&#8221; Mervin said. &#8220;I needed to know little things, like how to make my way around Mackenzie Chown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her mentor, Amanda Milburn, encouraged Mervin to get involved in the PEKN (Physical Education and Kinesiology) council. The two attended weekly meetings together. They met about once a week to talk about other subjects, such as school and stress, and their goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once I got matched up with Amanda, I thought \u2018This is cool. This program does what it says it&#8217;s going to do,'&#8221; Mervin said. &#8220;I told my housemates&#8230; and (they all got) mentors, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, <a title=\"Mentorship Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/mentoring\" target=\"_blank\">visit Mentorship Plus<\/a> or <a title=\"Mentorship Plus Registration\" href=\"https:\/\/mentormatch.brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\">register online. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mentorship Plus program is seeking senior student mentors who can help first-year students make the transition successfully from high school to university. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[911,908,910,909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21593,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592\/revisions\/21593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}