Graduate Student Council Session. Centering Race in College Mentorship: Strategies to Support Students in Racist, Hostile Academic Environments

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Students' mental, social and emotional well-being are some of the key factors that shape students' college experience. Understanding students needs and concerns facilitates the development of a healthy advisor/advisee partnership. In this session, the facilitator will share strategies used to support mentorship when working with students of color, and students who come from low-income communities. Facilitators will rely on a thematic analysis that shares the experiences of doctoral students who experience racism at their university while noticing different incidences of White privilege. Participants will walk away with strategies to help faculty, student affair practitioners and college advisors with tools to help them better support marginalized students by being racial consciousness and anti-racist.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Cosponsor

• Graduate Student Council

Chair

• Andii Layton, Michigan State University

Panelists

• Amy C. Crosson, Pennsylvania State University

• Tiffany M Nyachae, Pennsylvania State University

• Dana L. Mitra, Pennsylvania State University