{"id":78771,"date":"2020-07-03T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=78771"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:27:24","slug":"introducing-the-akron-law-peer-mentor-program-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2020\/07\/03\/introducing-the-akron-law-peer-mentor-program-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Akron Law Peer Mentor Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peer mentorship promotes a sense of community at the School\nof Law and fosters student development through communication, support, and\nguidance to law school resources. First-year students are matched with\nupper-division Peer Mentors in advance of their first semester. Each Peer\nMentor is an upper-level law student who volunteers to support new law students\nand to welcome them to the Akron Law family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First-year law students meet their Peer Mentors during\nOrientation, and throughout the school year, Peer Mentors check-in with their\nmentees regularly by phone, text, or email, and face-to-face (as permitted) at\nleast once per month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary goals of the Peer Mentor Program are to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Support first-year law students as they acclimate to  law school;<\/li><li>Help first-year law students navigate law school and make the most of the many opportunities;<\/li><li>Foster a sense of community and engagement throughout the first-year class; <\/li><li>Answer questions regarding courses, degree requirements, academic support services, career services, student organizations, law review, and competition teams; and <\/li><li>Provide information about professional opportunities  and academic pursuits outside of the classroom.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In pairing mentees with mentors, the program coordinators\nreview student surveys and consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Background and experience<\/li><li>Academic interests<\/li><li>Legal Interests<\/li><li>Other points of commonality (i.e. race, gender, hometown, undergrad institution, etc.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper-division students interested in serving as a mentor\nshould complete this survey: <a href=\"https:\/\/nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakron.qualtrics.com%2Fjfe%2Fform%2FSV_eevUEBhm1qhjU6p&amp;data=02%7C01%7Csa_ekh42%40uakron.edu%7Cd5323639cb4f41c9253f08d80c84f0a9%7Ce8575dedd7f94ecea4aa0b32991aeedd%7C0%7C0%7C637273112395813939&amp;sdata=ohsQY6IjzVa6SilsjUbyt8BkP8GqpmwM5H4MnnGOnO0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_eevUEBhm1qhjU6p<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peer mentorship promotes a sense of community at the School of Law and fosters student development through communication, support, and guidance to law school resources. First-year students are matched with upper-division Peer Mentors in advance of their first semester. Each Peer Mentor is an upper-level law student who volunteers to support new law students and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2020\/07\/03\/introducing-the-akron-law-peer-mentor-program-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introducing the Akron Law Peer Mentor Program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78775,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78771\/revisions\/78775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}