{"id":92391,"date":"2021-08-04T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=92391"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T19:24:34","slug":"peer-mentorship-program-register-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2021\/08\/04\/peer-mentorship-program-register-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer Mentorship Program &#8212; Register Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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 to welcome them to the Akron Law family.<br><br>First-year law students meet their Peer Mentors during Orientation, and throughout the school year, Peer Mentors check-in with their mentees regularly by phone, text, or email, and face-to-face (as permitted) at least once per month.<br><br><strong>The primary goals of the Peer Mentor Program are to:<\/strong><\/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><strong>In pairing mentees with mentors, the program coordinators review student surveys and consider:<\/strong><\/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 should complete this survey:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fakron.qualtrics.com%2Fjfe%2Fform%2FSV_1Zdv9Ee65oOyqP4%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0LMXxlC1vcioeaMhElkvEHvQW3sMY1_XA3gRQ0N_eNdfAOAv4PorVzlAs&amp;h=AT2zTImTLK5tTkji-oLeXx5xggier-mY47LWa2WQx2C1avlpABCRmH6IIgWLXozCt9Y5hZAJu0PnfyvIICeYEEIMEhbH2j300Ssr1DGqI7NbPRgFmIvkLwreXHQ-0xH2rw&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT32lZCQgSicFQ-_YAA8uUnqopZxTIqB8_Itjda7u9IyjHOfQN7D2han4DK_5YUcI_WK1VGdPleTTbne26b9tCQNVVBMIsmHDOEXbfBaVB9xa2WpzZkaYcaAbSmka_xnx-WgwVzXhIDTHzZ-eMwHZeBOycF8aaftvkg\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_1Zdv9Ee65oOyqP4<\/a>.<\/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\/2021\/08\/04\/peer-mentorship-program-register-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peer Mentorship Program &#8212; Register Today!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3383,"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-92391","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\/92391","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\/3383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92523,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92391\/revisions\/92523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}