By: Anastasia S Vaughan/Contributing Writer
When walking through campus at a commuter school, it is easy to miss out or neglect the much cherished relationships that are part of the college experience. The Women’s Center at the Biscayne Bay Campus looks to change this disconnection through its Mentoring Program.
On Sept. 8, The Women’s Center & Office of Alumni Relations is hosting an orientation for their Mentorship Program for women at the Biscayne Bay Campus Wolfe University Center in room 157 from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Sabrena O’Keefe, assistant director of the Women’s Center says, “They can expect to have a much more intimate event than its much larger Modesto Maidique Campus.”
The orientation is open to all undergraduate and graduate women who seek “an opportunity to meet someone they haven’t met before. The event, leading up to the [mentorship] program, is there to help those who have life experience give guidance to those who have questions and want help in succeeding in various areas of their lives. The partnership program is a personal growth program in which women come together to make other women stronger,” said O’Keefe.
The orientation will set the expectations for what will be the mentor/mentee relationship and how to make the most of it.
At noon, the students, as well as future student mentors, will engage in ice breakers, learn about the future of the program and receive resources to continue on the track of mentorship. The orientation is set to last about an hour and a half.
The Women’s Center insists that the whole base of this program is to bring members together and to intervene in day to day activities when necessary.
“The expected outcome is simply making the connection. I had one student who signed up a long time ago tell me that in the four years she had been in FIU, she failed to really connect with anyone and that is the reason she joined,” said O’Keefe.
“At the end of the day what we really do in a program like this is to bring out into the open the awareness that there are still issues that women have to face in our society every day. Students get to choose their mentors and it doesn’t have to be career related. We try to give the mentors and mentees the ideal combination of what they want.”
For more information, and to register for the orientation visit the Women’s Center’s website, http://women.fiu.edu/mpp.htm
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