{"id":903,"date":"2021-02-16T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/?p=903"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:21:38","slug":"mentoring-and-university-insights-for-black-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2021\/02\/16\/mentoring-and-university-insights-for-black-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring and University Insights for Black Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent&#8217;s Outreach Team have developed a new student led project, \u2018<strong>Mentoring and University Insights for Black Students<\/strong>\u2019, which will be managed by a team of 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ambassadors\/index.html\">Student Ambassadors<\/a> who will research, design, and deliver the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassadors plan to meet with black sixth form students from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofkentacademiestrust.org.uk\/\">UKAT<\/a> (University of Kent Academies Trust) on a once monthly basis over 4 months, with each meeting focusing on different a theme, such as extra-curricular opportunities at university, additional support at university, university as a place of research.<\/p>\n<p>The first of 4 programme topics, starting on Wednesday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> March, will be <strong><em>Practical considerations to help when researching universities before you apply, as well as once you start,<\/em><\/strong> and will highlight the work universities are doing to diversify the curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Barbara Adewumi<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess\/\">Student Success<\/a> Research Associate, will be a guest speaker for the first event, and will talk about her role in engaging University of Kent student interns via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/\">Careers and Employability Service<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/contact\/staff.html\">Work Study Scheme<\/a>, to work on collaborative projects such as Diversity Mark.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the <strong>Sixth Form Progression Project<\/strong>, contact <strong>Shauna-Aine O&#8217;Brien<\/strong>, Student Support &amp; Development Officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ems\/services\/outreach\/index.html\">Partnership Development Office<\/a>, on <a href=\"mailto:outreach@kent.ac.uk\">outreach@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent&#8217;s Outreach Team have developed a new student led project, \u2018Mentoring and University Insights for Black Students\u2019, which will be managed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2021\/02\/16\/mentoring-and-university-insights-for-black-students\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60919,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131566,112454,6598,1,153673,245198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}