The Connect Mentorship Program (known by students as Connect) is a year-long …
The Connect Mentorship Program (known by students as Connect) is a year-long mentorship program aimed at retaining students of color at SMU. The program has two parts: the Connect Institute and Peer Mentorship. Connect helps incoming students of color become effective, successful, and engaged members of SMU through peer mentoring. Mentors help incoming students develop personally and academically by introducing them to various resources, learning opportunities, and co-curricular experiences offered on campus.
DELIVERY FORMAT: The program is in-person only.
PROGRAM SCALE: Medium-scale (reaches between 10 and 25 percent of its target population)
DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: Office of Social Change & Intercultural Engagement
CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Dr. Jennifer Jones at scie@smu.edu or 214-768-4580
The SMU Hegi Career Leaders (HCL) program, established in 2018, is a …
The SMU Hegi Career Leaders (HCL) program, established in 2018, is a 4-year advanced professional development program, which provides selected students with access to specialized career counseling sessions, in which they set and track career goals, and attend targeted professional development and employer events.
The program is open to applicants of all years and majors at SMU, and is hosted by the Hegi Family Career Development Center, which places a priority on offering students support to invest in their career development for success after graduation.
Each semester HCL students will be asked to attend career counseling sessions, events, and meetings over the course of the semester to maintain their status as a Hegi Career Leader!
DELIVERY FORMAT: The program has a hybrid format or has both online and in-person components.
PROGRAM SCALE: Small-scale (reaches fewer than 10 percent of its target population)
DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: SMU Hegi Family Career Development Center
CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Dr. Crystal Clayton at cclayton@smu.edu or 214-768-2266
The International Leadership Program (ILP) is designed for students looking to enhance …
The International Leadership Program (ILP) is designed for students looking to enhance their leadership, communication, and teamwork skills. The program provides opportunities for professional development while serving the global SMU community. This program is open to ALL globally-minded SMU students - domestic, international, graduate, and undergraduate. SMU's International Student & Scholar Services office (ISSS) is home to the International Leadership Program. It is the goal of the ISSS office for international students to have meaningful experiences at SMU and to help them navigate and take advantage of the resources offered to students. Leaders are always ready to offer advice about living in the U.S., answer any questions about resources off/on-campus, and serve as a welcoming guide to new students. International Leaders enhance their leadership skills through regular leadership trainings, leading projects of their own design that enhance the international student experience, and providing support for in-person and virtual programs hosted by the International Student and Scholar Services Office. Participants are challenged to think critically about gaps in the support of global students and use this analysis to strategize programs or resources to address them. In doing so alongside their cohort peers, leaders develop the skills necessary to effectively work with those of different educational, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds.
DELIVERY FORMAT: The program has a hybrid format or has both online and in-person components.
PROGRAM SCALE: Small-scale (reaches fewer than 10 percent of its target population)
DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: International Student & Scholar Services
CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Kelly Garcia at isss@smu.edu or 2147684475
The Peer Leaders within Residence Life program provides opportunities for SMU upper-class …
The Peer Leaders within Residence Life program provides opportunities for SMU upper-class students to serve in a leadership capacity while acting as liaisons for campus departments. Partnering campus departments include the Office of Wellbeing, Engage Dallas, the Office of General Education, and the Office of the Chaplain & Religious Life. Each residential community primarily serves first and second-year students who are the primary target audience for the peer leader program. There are four peer leaders dedicated to each residential community, a Peer Academic Leader, Engage Dallas Student Director, Spiritual Life Mentor, and a Wellbeing Education Student Team representative. Each peer leader partners with the Residential Community Director and Faculty in Residence to facilitate monthly programs focused on well-being, academic support, spiritual development, and local community service engagement.
The Peer Leader program aims to ensure students are aware of and utilizing on-campus support resources, are connected socially on-campus and to the local Dallas community, and are supported in their transition to college in order to promote holistic wellness that leads to student success and retention.
DELIVERY FORMAT: The program is in-person only.
PROGRAM SCALE: Large-scale (reaches more than 25 percent of its intended target population)
DEPARTMENT(S) OVERSEEING PROGRAM: Residence Life and Student Housing
CONTACT FOR MORE INFO: Audryanna Reed at audryannar@smu.edu or 214-768-1862
The Rotunda Scholars Program is a one-year scholars program that aims to …
The Rotunda Scholars Program is a one-year scholars program that aims to help a cohort of first year students achieve early success at SMU by promoting academic achievement, personal excellence, and leadership. The program strives to help students transition to college and the SMU campus at large with holistic academic counseling, upperclassmen Peer Counselors, study hall, and exclusive events and programming. In addition to exclusive study spaces and programming, benefits include reserved seats in high demand courses as well as supplemental office hours with key faculty. Rotunda primarily serves students who are historically underserved and underrepresented at SMU. Our diverse and academically inclined cohort is comprised of first-generation college students, Pell eligible, minorities, those from rural backgrounds or other underrepresented individuals that would benefit from the enriching one-year program. Every student comes to college with different academic and lived experiences. Rotunda aims to help students have an equitable and empowering first year and beyond. The resources and support do not end after the first year. After they complete the one year program, they remain a part of our Rotunda community in which they can turn to for academic support, financial resources, job opportunities, and general guidance in hopes of aiding their ultimate goal, graduation.The core value of the Rotunda Scholars Program is to provide and promote an inclusive and equitable experience, through holistic support, and to be a home for our students. The core purpose of our program is to make an impact. We encourage our students to explore all opportunities, we empower them to challenge themselves and become their own educational advocates, and hope they will evolve into the trailblazers and world changers we know they are capable of becoming.
DELIVERY FORMAT: The program is in-person only.
PROGRAM SCALE: Medium-scale (reaches between 10 and 25 percent of its target population)
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