Training involves an intensive introduction to the TNS/Lang campus ecology, offering First Year Mentors an opportunity:
Meet with various campus partners from offices, departments, and programs from across the university;
Learn with and from Lang faculty about best pedagogical practices in and across the liberal arts;
Build cohort community and develop a collective programmatic vision for the upcoming academic year; and
Construct preliminary workshop curricula centered on the connections between social justice, interdisciplinarity, and the liberal arts.
At Orientation, First Year Mentors:
offer informal support to new first year students and facilitate their arrival onto campus;
lead an introductory seminar discussion for first year seminar students with first year seminar faculty;
take first year seminar students on a luncheon walking tour of TNS; and
lead a panel discussion ("How I Decided") on major and course selection processes.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Requirements
Completed at least one full semester of coursework at Eugene Lang College
In good academic standing
Facilitates conversations with ease and interacts respectfully with others
Demonstrates (active) listening for understanding and an openness to feedback, learning, and growth
Displays effective communication across lines of identity and difference, and exhibits awareness of how positionality conditions both what and how communication transpires
Displays a commitment to supporting first year students and a working understanding of the various challenges and opportunities that first year students at Lang can encounter
Possesses a broad-based investment and interest in Lang/TNS culture and community
Committed to (and/or open to) learning about social justice struggles and to dismantling interpersonal, institutional, and structural violence at TNS and beyond
Committed to seminar learning, process-oriented pedagogy, and the relay between academic, social, and holistic wellness
Hourly Rate: $20
Work Mode: On-campus position #LI-DNI
Benefits
Vision insurance
Additional Information
The First Year Mentor program is an exciting leadership opportunity for Lang students to build upon their own academic, pedagogical, and activist work, and to inspire first year students to become part of a community at Lang that values and practices a commitment to care, critical thinking, and social justice. Following a training and orientation in August and early September, First Year Mentors support a group of incoming first year students to help them make a smooth transition to Lang and engage with the campus community.
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