Georgetown College Mentor Program
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The application deadline for the College Mentor Program has been extended until Friday, February 1.
Now, after your first semester of college, is a good time to consider the broader outlines of your years here. Some of you have already begun that process through a Four-Year Plan.
Another way in which the College invites students to deepen their learning and discuss the dreams and hopes which should inform their choices of classes and the completion of requirements is the Georgetown College Mentor Program. While learning may take many forms—courses, individual research, internships, work—the fundamental reason you have come to Georgetown is to apprentice with the more advanced learners who make up the College faculty. Through your courses in the fall and spring semesters, you have entered into the various disciplinary conversations which make up the life of the University. The Mentor Program is designed to extend and deepen those conversations through an ongoing relationship with one of your first year professors.
The value of such a relationship can be immeasurable. Many first year students are still tentative in their commitments to interests, and unsure about the consequences of the various decisions they've made or are contemplating. Faculty members are not simply teachers; they are former students who have confronted many of the same choices which may bewilder you, and who can speak with a degree of earned wisdom about which choices prove over the long term to be important. Such conversations can be both inspiring and liberating.
Students interested in requesting a faculty mentor for the spring semester are encouraged to select a faculty member who has inspired them in some way, with whom a connection has been established on some level, and with whom there is a clear opportunity for a deepening of that connection.
In order for this Mentoring relationship to be effective, students and faculty must be proactive and willing to initiate and sustain the personal contact. The Dean’s office budget includes money for a meal with your mentor, and we will provide updates throughout the semester listing activities and events of interest to mentors and their students.
We invite all undeclared first year students in the College to participate in this program. To apply to have a mentor please submit the application below to Christina Van Epp by Friday, February 1.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Georgetown College Mentor Program, and are confident it will be a memorable and beneficial aspect of your undergraduate experience.
