The School of Graduate Studies and Douglass Residential College were awarded an IDEA Innovation Grant through the Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement (DICE) to support the inaugural Mentoring for Social Justice and Community-Building Project during the 2022-2023 academic year.
The goal of the Mentoring for Social Justice and Community-Building Project – sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies and Douglass Residential College – is to foster mutually beneficial relationships between current graduate students and undergraduates committed to aligning their scholarship, advocacy, and collaborations with social justice principles. Through training graduate students in justice-oriented approaches to mentorship and partnering a cohort of graduate student mentors with Douglass undergraduate mentees, the project aims to generate sustainable near-peer mentoring relationships shaped by common interests, experiences, or aspirations.
The IDEA Innovation Grant Program supports projects that enable students, faculty, and staff across Rutgers University to take an active role in building an inclusive community.
Learn more about the Mentoring for Social Justice and Community-Building Project.