Welcome to the Multicultural Mentoring Program
Mission
To provide personal support, assistance, social guidance, and positive campus survival skills to first-year and transfer minority students by developing activities and interactions with upper-class students to address personal needs, thus contributing to their academic success, and enhancing the University of Tennessee's efforts in recruiting, retaining and graduating minority students.
Goals
- Mentor first year minority students through strategic and consistent contact.
- Provide personal and professional enrichment opportunities for students with an emphasis on minority students.
- Act as a referral agent for academic support services available at UT that contribute to improved retention rates of minority students.
- Sponsor and encourage attendance at programs in which mentors and mentees actively interact and participate.
- Provide continuous and relevant training to equip mentors with resources to effectively assist first year minority students.
To apply for a MMP Mentor, please fill out the registration form here.
Advisors
- Kristin Greene,
Graduate Research Assistant - Dametraus Jaggers,
Associate Director, Retention and Student Engagement