The MECP Husky Mentor Program encourages professional development and support of Middle Eastern students at UConn by pairing students with Middle Eastern faculty, staff, and alumni who share their professional and academic interests. These mentors play an important role in helping students successfully reflect on and solidify their aspirations as current and future leaders, guiding them to navigate their career plans.

Mentors will meet and correspond with their mentee, helping them navigate, integrate, and synthesize their unique cultural experiences, academic work, cocurricular activities, and community involvement to make a lasting impression on the campus and its students. The specific ways in which Mentors help, guide, and interact with their mentees will vary depending on the experiences, resources, needs and relationship developed between the pair. Similarly, the specific relationship between students and their MECP Husky Mentor will be determined individually by each pair. However, mentors and mentees will be invited and encouraged to attend MECP events together throughout the academic year. Fill out this form to join the program.