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BIPOC Mentorship Program

The BIPOC mentorship program aims to:

  • Contribute to University of Regina’s strategic objective of creating spaces where everyone feels part of the community
  • Ease transition for new graduate BIPOC students to graduate studies
  • Facilitate communication and peer-to-peer relationships between continuing BIPOC graduate students and new BIPOC graduate students
  • Promote and increase cross-cultural competency, communication and learning
  • Invite new BIPOC graduate students to participate in social, intercultural and academic engagements

For Mentees

  • Are you a graduate student and identify as Black, Indigenous or a Student of Colour, and interested in gaining additional support in your academic and professional development?
  • Do you have any barriers that are not efficiently addressed by your current support systems in graduate school?
  • Do you want to meet other students and learn about the University’s services and resources from another BIPOC graduate student familiar with the UofR?
  • Mentees must have completed 3 or more credit hours in their Master's or PhD program.

For Mentors

  • Are you a BIPOC graduate student who is committed, thoughtful, values confidentiality and provides supportive guidance and constructive feedback?
  • Are you willing to hone your coaching and leadership skills, self-awareness and understanding of your own field?
  • Do you have the passion of giving back, and having a great satisfaction of knowing you are helping another person?
  • Mentors must have completed a minimum 6 credit hours of graduate course work and be willing to “meet” with a mentee twice in the Fall semester for ~30-60 minutes.
  • Mentors will receive a $100 honorarium at the end of the semester.
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Mentorship Application

We are all in the same boat. Let's help each other, because together we are stronger.

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Do you identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour, Asian and/or as a racialized person)? *
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