{"id":25606,"date":"2013-11-29T10:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=25606"},"modified":"2013-11-29T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T17:26:06","slug":"new-co-op-mentorship-program-seeks-experienced-co-op-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/11\/new-co-op-mentorship-program-seeks-experienced-co-op-students\/","title":{"rendered":"New co-op mentorship program seeks experienced co-op students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25608\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jackie-crawford-bn.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25608\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25608 \" title=\"jackie-crawford-bn\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jackie-crawford-bn-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie Crawford, Mentorship Plus co-ordinator, will soon be spending her time pairing experienced co-op students with first-year co-op students in the new Co-op Match program to help them get the most from their work term experiences. \" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Crawford, Mentorship Plus co-ordinator, will soon be spending her time pairing experienced co-op students with first-year co-op students in the new Co-op Match program to help students get the most from their work term experiences. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jackie Crawford has a knack for playing matchmaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Mentorship Plus co-ordinator knows how to work her magic, pairing students together in a mentor-prot\u00e9g\u00e9 relationship so they get the most out of their university experience.<\/p>\n<p>Soon Crawford will be putting her skills to use for another program that will connect experienced co-op students with co-op rookies to help them achieve work term success.<\/p>\n<p>Called Co-op Match, the new program is a partnership between Mentorship Plus and the <a title=\"Co-op Programs Office\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/co-op\" target=\"_blank\">Co-op Programs Office.<\/a> The search for mentors, who have completed at least one work term, to work with junior co-op students officially begins Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first years in university can be challenging for any student so we hope that such a partnership will encourage them, especially because that encouragement is coming from another student,&#8221; said Christina Butler, career consultant in the Co-op Programs Office. &#8220;We hope it motivates junior co-op students to get more involved and contributes to their overall success in the co-op program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Participation in the program is voluntary and the commitment to providing guidance to prot\u00e9g\u00e9s won&#8217;t be overwhelming, she promised. Some connections can be made by email or text.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking to engage students more actively,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Prospective mentors can register online for Co-op Match specifically starting Dec. 1. In the meantime, they can put in a general mentoring application through the Mentorship Plus website.<\/p>\n<p>Though mentor recruitment will be ongoing, the first wave will be trained in early January and matching with prot\u00e9g\u00e9s will start soon after.<\/p>\n<p>Pairings could be made based on program, interests and goals, Butler explained.<\/p>\n<p>Mentors are only required to work with students for an eight-month period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, if they want to continue their friendships after that, that&#8217;s fine,&#8221; Butler said.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more or to become a mentor, <a title=\"mentormatch.brocku.ca\" href=\"https:\/\/mentormatch.brocku.ca     \" target=\"_blank\">visit Co-op Match online through the Mentorship Plus website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Crawford has a knack for playing matchmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[174,120,908],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606"}],"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=25606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25614,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions\/25614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}