What's involved in being a Student Mentor?

To be a considered eligible to be a Student Mentor, students must have:

• completed the first year of their undergraduate program
• demonstrated their capability to maintain a Pass grade average

Mentors are expected to commit to the following:

• Attendance at and participation in the professional development session offered in mid February.
• Learning about services and facilities within the university in order to be equipped to show new students how to go about finding their own information.
• Ability to deliver the schedule of fortnightly emails to new students.
• Attempting at least 1 face to face meeting with each new student during early weeks of semester. 
• Providing ongoing support/availability to new students as requested for the first six weeks of semester.

Training

A number of resources will be provided via the BlackBoard mentoring site and a one day professional development session will be run shortly before semester commences.  Mentors must attend the session in order to be considered part of the program.  Throughout the six weeks of the program, mentors will have access to ongoing support from the Mentor Co-ordinator.

Recognition and remuneration

The Student Mentor Program is a voluntary program, which recruits students on an annual basis.

The students who volunteer for this program are not paid, although all mentors often receive a gratuity for participation and will be provided with vouchers to cover the expense of taking new students for a coffee.

Student Mentors who are able to evidence full engagement and who complete the six week program will receive quality professional development opportunities and experience for their resumes, along with appropriate recognition of participation on their AHEG Statement, iLead points and a Statement of Participation.