PRIDE Mentoring

What is PRIDE Mentoring?

PRIDE Mentoring is a collaborative program hosted between the Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) and Rider’s PRIDE Alliance. This program is an opportunity for first-year and transfer LGBTQIA+ students to be plugged into a community that affirms and supports their identity development. Incoming first-year students will be mentored by sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Additionally, students will have bi-weekly programming to ensure that they are staying engaged on campus.

Mission

The mission of PRIDE Mentoring is to support first-year LGBTQIA+ students on campus by ensuring that they are aware of resources on campus, and building a community of peers to help them understand their own personal development.

Mentor Learning Goals

• Identify strategies for mentorship
• Facilitate group dialogue on social identities
• Identify strategies for community building

Who may participate as a mentor?

Rising sophomores who identify as LGBTQIA+ or feel part of the community.

Mentee Learning Goals

• Mentees will be able to articulate their own lived experiences
• Identify other people’s opinions
• Identify characteristics of their social identity

Who may participate as a mentee?

Incoming first year students who identify as LGBTQIA+ or feel part of the community.

Where will the PRIDE Mentoring program take place?

Most of the training occurs on Rider’s campus. PRIDE Mentoring will take place alongside other programs such as Multicultural Student Leadership Institute (MSLI) and P2P MENTORING. Besides program orientations, mentor and mentee training, the following activities will be implemented into programming:

Information sessions

• Academic Success Center
• College Readiness
• Information Literacy
• Time and Stress Management
• Housing
• Financial Literacy
• Center for Diversity and Inclusion

Roundtables

• Faculty, staff, and alumni of color
• Faculty from same discipline/major

Seminars

• Motivational
• Informational
• Educational

Intercultural activities

• Field trips to foster cultural enrichment
• Group bonding activities
• Good citizenship practices
• Campus cultural programs 

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