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<span style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt;">My name is Victor Moreira and I’m one of the senior undergraduate academic advisors over in CHASS Advising for the Multidisciplinary Unit. I also serve as the program director
for a new mentorship program in its second year that’s begin funded by Undergraduate Education for the 2022-2023 academic year – the Blue, Gold, and Black Mentorship Program. I’m reaching out to you all under the capacity of the program director and not as
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#2F5597">The mentorship program has a specific focus on the Black student experience but is open to all incoming freshmen and transfer students. Details about the program can be found at
<a href="https://ue.ucr.edu/bgbmp" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="color:#2F5597">https://ue.ucr.edu/bgbmp</span></a>. The program exposes the mentees to different mentorship groups and one of those groups is UCR graduate students in pursuit of a master’s
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#2F5597">The graduate student volunteers would be asked to attend one “meet and greet” event each quarter. The purpose of the quarterly event is for the mentees and graduate student volunteers
to mix and mingle in hopes of achieving the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#2F5597"><span style="color:windowtext">The program mentees learn different tips that can help them academically.</span></span></li><li class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#4472C4">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#2F5597"><span style="color:windowtext">The program mentees get a solid understanding of what life is like as a graduate student.</span></span></li><li class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:#4472C4">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#2F5597"><span style="color:windowtext">The graduate students lay the foundation for the program mentees to consider attending graduate school after earning their degree from UCR.</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:#2F5597">I’m hoping to get at least two graduate student volunteers from each of the colleges/schools: CHASS, CNAS, BCOE, SOB, GSOE, SOM, School of Public Policy. I’ve also attached a flyer.
If you’re interested in volunteering, please email me directly at <a href="mailto:victor.moreira@ucr.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable">
<span style="color:#2F5597">victor.moreira@ucr.edu</span></a>.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Victor Moreira</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:black">Chair, <a href="https://ue.ucr.edu/bgbmp" data-auth="NotApplicable">
<span style="color:black">Blue, Gold, and Black Mentorship Program</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:black">E-mail: <a href="mailto:victor.moreira@ucr.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="color:black">victor.moreira@ucr.edu</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; color:black">Website: <a href="http://mfau.ucr.edu/undergrad_advising/index.html" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="color:black">MDU Advising Info</span></a></span></p>
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