GTF Peer Mentors impact the direction of Greater Texas Foundation Aggie Scholars students by providing dedicated leadership and mentorship. GTF Mentors will strengthen their personal & professional skills while collaboratively working with staff to ensure GTF Aggie Scholars achieve the set forth learning outcomes and develop experience that may be applied in other academic and professional situations.
Eligibility & Responsibilities:
- Must register for the Fall and Spring semester UGST course
- Facilitate the UGST 181 course
- Attend all listed dates/trainings
- Complete the Hullabaloo U training
- Plan, manage and implement small socials a semester for the GTF Community
- Plan and schedule to attend all Small Community events
- Meet one-on-one with each mentee at least once a month
- Attend the Fall & Spring Community Service event
- Have a positive attitude
Program Goals:
- To give new scholarship recipients a support system with a mentor and connection through that mentor to other resources.
- To provide new students the awareness that other students have encountered similar experiences and to provide aid in succeeding in these situations.
- To provide realistic support and feedback to new scholarship students regarding their current and future status.
- To help freshmen scholarship students develop greater self-awareness of strengths, abilities, and potential.
- To encourage freshman scholarship students to become vital and contributing members of the Texas A&M community.
- To develop in freshman scholarship recipients a positive identification with Texas A&M and the scholarship community.