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Structure | Mentor Role | Student Role | QCRED History | Contact Information
Registration Form for Students
The goal of the Faculty-Student Mentorship Program is to support self-identified racialized students through their university experiences. The program places faculty in a mentorship role where they offer guidance, advice and resources to self-identified racialized undergraduate/graduate students. In a supportive environment, students can seek assistance with their goals, needs, and concerns arising from university experiences. The program promotes frequent faculty-student communication which is a major factor in student motivation, campus involvement, and retention. One objective of the program is to provide self-identified racialized students with a faculty mentor on campus who will encourage, offer guidance and advice, and provide resources to help students manage their university experiences. Another objective is to increase faculty familiarity and understanding of racialized students’ experiences and perspectives at university.
Self-Identified Racialized Students
* The Federal Government of Canada identifies visible minorities as “person, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour” (The Employment Equity Act, Section 3, 1995). The Faculty-Student Mentorship Program has chosen to use self-identified racialized student because it allows individuals to self-identify, while challenging minority status and naming marginalization and disadvantage as part of constructs of race, colour, and ethnicity.
Structure
Each mentor in the program will be paired with 1 or 2 self-identified racialized students. Mentors and students will meet individually or as a group at least twice a month. However, the program is flexible to meet the needs of both faculty and students. Meetings are an opportunity for students to discuss concerns and experiences that arise from working, living, and studying at university. Mentors would then have an opportunity to provide advice, guidance and support to each student.
Mentor Role
• Assist students in adapting to cultural norms of academic life
• Assist in focusing goals and timing of educational development plans
• Advise on strategies for successful studying
• Provide guidance as needed
• Evaluate and provide formative feedback
• Provide advice on understanding and navigating an academic environment
• Provide program evaluation
Student Role
• Initiate communication with the faculty mentor
• Communicate goals, needs, and concerns arising from university experiences
• Demonstrate a commitment to learning and progress
• Provide program evaluation
QRED History
Queen’s Coalition for Racial and Ethnic Diversity (QCRED) formed in April 2006, in response to concerns about racism and diversity issues at Queen’s. The coalition includes members from students, staff and faculty. The Faculty-Student Mentorship Program is one of the programs that will support self-identified racialized students.
The Faculty-Student Mentorship Program for Self-identified Racialized Students was initiated by the Queen's Coalition Against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination (QCRED) in collaboration with:
• The Vice-Principal Academic
• The Office of the University Advisor on Equity (OUAE)
• The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
For more information please visit:
www.qcred.org
Contact information
For more information please contact:
faculty.mentorship@queensu.ca
or
Centre for Teaching and Learning
Room B176, Mackintosh Corry
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada K7L 3N6
Phone: 613-533-6428
Fax: 613-533-6735
www.queensu/ctl
