Words from the A3C Director
Dear Sophomore:
Congratulations on finishing your first year at Stanford. I hope your freshman experience was a good one and that your summer is going well. I am the Associate Dean and Director of the Asian American Activities Center. The Center serves as a resource for Asian American students and Asian American student organizations on campus. One of the programs offered by the Center is the Asian American Interactive Mentoring Program (AIM). This program matches Asian American staff, faculty and alumni with Asian American sophomores for one-on-one mentoring. AIM was created to provide culturally sensitive mentoring. Some of the goals of AIM are:
• to build a greater interactive Asian American community
• to offer undergraduates the support and experience of faculty, staff and alumni
• to provide faculty, staff and alumni with a way to become more involved in campus and undergraduate issues
Mentors and mentees will meet or communicate regularly and hopefully develop a close relationship. There will also be quarterly gatherings of all the mentor pairs. Pairs are matched based on information in your application. We try to match pairs based on common interests. Mentors can be faculty, alumni or administrative staff from a variety of departments.
I hope that you will seriously consider applying to participate in AIM. Past participants have found it to be a worthwhile experience for both the mentor and the student. Please keep in mind that participation does require a yearlong time commitment. If you are interested in participating in AIM please complete the online application at: http://a3cservices.stanford.edu/aim/mentee/ by September 9, 2011. If you do not have access to a computer please call me at (650) 723-3681 and I will mail you a hard copy. If you have any questions please email me at cindy.ng@stanford.edu
Enjoy the rest of the summer and see you soon!
Sincerely,
Cindy Ng
Associate Dean/Director