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Academia can be something of an alien environment when students first arrive - it can be hard to pick up all the subtle social cues, difficult to find your way around and sometimes the inhabitants seem to speak a strange language all of their own!
SIGN Mentoring Program provides and opportunity for new students to link up with later year students and learn from their knowledge and experience of campus life.
The SIGN Program is available to local and international students, undergraduates and graduates.
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A SIGN mentor is a later year student who acts as a facilitator for a small group of new students. The mentor helps new students adapt to University life, access campus resources and shares their 'implicit' or 'subconscious' knowledge about the ANU. They also facilitate meeting other students - by meeting up with other mentor groups, letting them know about clubs & societies, networks and resources.
Please note that undergraduate students may become mentors of undergraduates through the SIGN Program.
SIGNPOST
SIGNPOST is a 2008 initiative. This is an opportunity for graduate students to mentor new graduates. As far as possible, coursework students are matched with coursework mentors, and research students with research mentors.
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SIGN is now recruiting Mentors for Semester 1, 2009
If you enjoy helping others, eating free food and socialising, mentoring could be just the thing for you!!
As you all would know, starting University as either an undergraduate or graduate can come with its challenges. The SIGN Mentoring Program runs for 6 weeks of each Semester and assists in easing new students into University life.
Mentors need to be in their second year of study or later, and must attend one half day training session, which will be held on various dates throughout November & December 2008 or January & February 2009 - please select a date only when registering your details.
*Please note students who mentored in 2008 need only attend a Refresher training session*
If you would like to take part in the SIGN Mentoring program and mentor new students, please register your details by clicking here.
In other news...
Previous Mentors: If you are interested in taking part in a small SIGN Program focus group to assist with 2009 planning please email the SIGN Coordinator at sign@anu.edu.au. More information to follow.
Thank you to all Mentors and New Students who completed the online survey - your feedback is very valuable to us. The winners of the $30 Co-op Bookshop Vouchers are Mentor Harriet Bateman and new student Yun Ling Lee.
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 SIGN conducts a range of events which help students and their mentors to get to know each other, and to allow an interchange of ideas and experiences amongst all participants in the program.
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Apart from SIGN, there are a range of services and support programs to assist students at ANU with all aspects of university life.
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Contact the SIGN Coordinator.
Phone: + 61 2 6125 3938
Fax: +61 2 6125 4037
Email: sign@anu.edu.au
Or drop by the SIGN Office and have a chat with the Coordinator. She is located in the Information Centre in Union Court, next to the Commonwealth Bank.
Address: Concessions Building (No.17), Union Court
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