MENTORING
LGBTQ Mentoring Program
The LGBTQ Mentoring Program pairs interested LGBTQ undergraduates with a LGBTQ faculty or staff mentor. The mentor is a sympathetic queer adult who will do what they can to be supportive. Mentors act as sounding board as students navigate their way through a (mostly) straight world. They can help as you address issues such as whether or not to come out on a resume or during a job search or graduate or professional school applications. Our hope is that being able to interact with a LGBTQ faculty or staff member will give students more of a sense of community.
Mentors meet with the students they are mentoring quarterly for lunch, dinner, or coffee. In addition to that, we sponsor a quarterly get together (such as a dinner) and various outings for all mentors and mentees participating in the program.
If you're a student interested in joining our mentoring program, please fill out this brief application form.
Matt helps prepare for the annual LCCP benefit.
Austin, Brad, and Chris at a Mentoring Program dinner.
Past LGBTQ Mentoring Program Events
- Participating in a volunteer project for the Lesbian Community Cancer Project
- Enjoyed several dinners together
- Attending the "About Face Theater" production of Pulp
- Attending a Cubs game
- Outings to the Chicago Historical Society's programs on queer Chicago history
- If you are interested, please e-mail Kathy Forde for an application.
LGBTQ Mentoring Program In The News
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0202/
campus-news/report-out.html
