UV Mentors

What courses do UV Mentors take?

CLSS 1000
Student Success
(3 credit hours)

Approximately 1,000 students take Student Success each year. The purpose of the class is to help student increase their self-awareness, improve their critical thinking and study skills, and connect to their college campus. Most students have the opportunity to work with a mentor who helps them to achieve these course objectives.

CLSS 2200
Leadership Mentoring I
(3 credit hours)

Before applying to be a UV Mentor, you must take CLSS 2200. This course introduces students to basic concepts of leadership and mentoring and allows them to further develop their own self-awareness, critical thinking, and campus connections.

CLSS 2300
Leadership Mentoring II
(2 credit hours)

Your first semester as a UV Mentor you will enroll in CLSS 2300. This course is designed to hone your skills as a mentor and prepare you for the specific topics covered in CLSS 1000.

CLSS 240R
Leadership Mentoring Practicum
(2 credit hours)

After the first semester, you will enroll in CLSS 240R. This is a practicum designed for accountability and ongoing skills assessment. You will submit weekly reports on WebCT and meet each Friday with the whole group to discuss relevant issues.

The program offers the mentor a chance to practice many of the best strategies proven to succeed in post-secondary school. From that standpoint alone college for the mentor becomes easier and an over-all better experience. Furthermore, serving in any capacity brings a new dynamic to any experience whether college, the workforce, or in the community. With this new dynamic in life, one finds multiple doors opening because of the service rendered and because of the mentor's capacity to see work/service as a potential life benefiting experience rather than "just another thing I have to do." Lastly, the friends made under organizations in which service is the goal, last much longer and become a great network for advice and help in the future. Aaron Olsen, UV Mentor 2004-2006