U of A LGBTQ Faculty/Staff-Student Mentoring Program Seeks Mentors
The U of A LGBTQ+ Faculty/Staff-Student Mentoring Program is pleased to announce we are accepting applications from LGBTQ+ faculty and staff who wish to be mentors for LGBTQ+ students.
The goals of this program are to foster mentoring relationships between students and faculty/staff that offer support, guidance and resources to LGBTQ+ students at the U of A and to expose students to the diverse out-of-classroom lives of adult LGBTQ+ members of the U of A community.
If you are interested in being a mentor please contact Michele Cooper, LCSW michelec@uark.edu or Justin Barnum jbarnum@uark.edu for an application or more information. Deadline is August 1, 2017.
Contacts
Anthony Justin Barnum, Instructor
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
479-575-3502,
jbarnum@uark.edu
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