The Mentors

“The fundamental task of the mentor is a liberatory task. It is not to encourage the mentor’s goals and aspirations and dreams to be reproduced in the mentees, the students, but to give rise to the possibility that the students become the owners of their own history. This is how I understand the need that teachers have to transcend their merely instructive task and to assume the ethical posture of a mentor who truly believes in the total autonomy, freedom, and development of those he or she mentors.” — Paulo Freire in Mentoring the Mentor

The Graduate Student Mentoring Program is made up of highly-trained mentors who are deeply invested in helping first-year graduate students succeed. Both the faculty and graduate peer mentors work closely with first-year students to make sure that they excel both on and off campus.