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Connectors Peer Mentorship

Program Goal

Our mission is to foster the success of all Scholar’s Electives students throughout their undergraduate experience. The upper-year students (connectors) will provide first-year students (connectees) with academic, extracurricular, and social support to help ease the transition to university. Additional resources and learning opportunities will be available through the connectors program for students in all years of the Scholar’s Electives program.

The Scholars Electives students bring invaluable talent and inspire tangible change throughout Western and the greater community. We hope to aid in this journey.


Benefits

  • Add another person, besides your RA and Faculty Soph, to your list of peer support figures
  • Share your concerns, questions, and experiences with a fellow Scholar's Elective student, just like you!
  • Have direct access to Student Experience contacts
  • Construct new friendships with like-minded students

What's Involved?

Connectees can have a cup of coffee, explore campus or get an iconic Spoke bagel with their connectors during their first week at Western to help support their transition into university life. Throughout the year, connectors and connectees will be encouraged to participate in events and activities, which may include:

An event to commence the new academic year and introduce first-years to the greater Scholar’s Electives community.

Further explore your Top 5 CliftonStrengths through peer-to-peer coaching with your Connector.

An opportunity for first years to learn more about the expectations of the Scholar’s Electives research course through a student panel. Connectors from each faculty will be present to speak about their unique research and answer questions.
The Scholar’s Electives community is known for their exceptional alumni, including Rhodes scholars, medical and law school graduates, and business owners. An event will be hosted where notable alumni will share their unique stories, hardships, and accomplishments since finishing their undergraduate studies.

Western Scholars and Scholar's Electives students are eligible to earn the Learn to Lead Scholars Leadership Certificate (eligible to be added to Western's Co-Curricular Record) by completing the following:

  • Learn to Lead Leadership Certificate: Consists of 4.0 workshops from the regular Learn to Lead series
  • Learn to Lead Scholars Series: Completion of 3.0 workshops from the Scholars Learn to Lead series
  • Learn to Lead Elective: Completion of 1.0 additional workshop from either the regular OR Scholars Learn to Lead series

Connect with your peers and mentor through tailored social events, workshops, and engagement initiatives.

Current Student Testimonials

"Having gotten the opportunity to have not one but two incredible upper-year mentors who enthusiastically answered questions every step of the way along my first-year journey was invaluable. From preparing me on what to expect in first-year courses to research in upper years, they made the university transition much less stressful and the connections I made with them still live on. I am very grateful to have met them through the Connectors program." - Tasnia Rahman

"Being involved with the Connectors program as first a connectee and then a connector has given me the opportunity to get to know many other Scholar's Electives students, both older and younger than myself! I've especially enjoyed the opportunity to become friends with my connectees and to provide them with one-on-one mentorship and support; I still talk to my first-ever connectee, who is now in her third year!" - Tristyn Snow

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