Student Mentoring

Professional‐to‐Student Mentoring Program

Mentoring of minority students in undergraduate and graduate design programs is an important part of D421’s mission. This initiative is considered “low hanging fruit” with respect to resources, impact and exposure. Once the support network is firmly established and proves efficient and effective, expansion will be made to support students that are tangent to design. Initial objectives include:

A. Communicate to and establish connection with HBCUs and other schools and programs that attract minority students and who have established design and architecture programs

B. Communicate to and establish connection with all design and architectural programs

C. Connect with relevant programs/disciplines tangential to design

D. Establish discipline specific mentoring groups to manage blogs, post relevant examples and build a repository of Q&A that can assist students

E. Establish ways to monitor student progress

F. Establish ways to track students after graduation

G. Encourage students to join the network and mentor as students and recent graduates