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"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth—don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency." — Aesop
Mentor Experience

Mentor Experience

The Civic Learning Mentor Experience is an informal mentoring program that gives students the opportunity to develop a relationship of mutual respect and trust with a JMU faculty member, staff member, or graduate student. Students meet weekly with their mentor and are free to discuss any number of topics including, but not limited to:

Students will also work with their mentor to create a personal mission statement. The mentoring pair will then identify short- and long-term goals and strategies for achievement that can be implemented during the relationship as well as after the mentoring experience has concluded.

Goals of the Mentor Experience

  1. Students will increase their self knowledge and understand how their personal actions impact and influence the university community.
  2. Students will increase their level of connection and/or belonging to the university.
  3. Students will increase their level of civic engagement within the university community.
  4. Students will demonstrate an increased motivation to change behavior patterns that could lead to a judicial violation.
  5. Students will demonstrate increased self awareness, including a sense of purpose and its relation to future goals.
  6. Students will recognize involvement opportunities or services which may facilitate their ability to reach their identified goals.
  7. Students will increase involvement at JMU in order to reach their mission and goals.