Contact: Kimberly Connelly

Email:kimberly.connelly@park.edu

Phone: 816-584-6834

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Global Match Application Form-Student

Global Match Application Form-Faculty and Staff

Global Match Hold Harmless Agreement

Global Match Mentor Handbook

Global Match Student Handbook

Global Match Contact Log

Global Match Meeting Journal

Global Match Flyer

The Culture Hour

Coming to America

"Mentoring is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. And it should never end.   It is why you should get up every day—to teach and be taught."  

--John Wooden

“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.”

--John Crosby

Program Description:

This program pairs a faculty or staff member with an incoming international student.  The pair meets 2 times a month for at least 15-30 minutes.  The mentor would be a resource and a friend to the student.

The pair can:

• talk
• gmeet at Pirate Grounds for a drink
• go to lunch
• pattend the Coming to America Lunches and Presentation
• attend the Culture Hour, Tuesday at 3:30pm
• plan to attend an athletic event together
• plan to attend a talk, play, recital, presentation at Park
• attend International Speakers Club presentations
• attend events during International Education week

Goals:

• To give international students a personal contact with a faculty/staff on campus;
• To encourage interaction between fac/staff and international students;
• To enhance/promote intercultural experiences for fac/staff;
• To enhance/promote intercultural communication for fac/staff;
• Provide a less formal environment for the student to ask questions and seek help outside the classroom/office.

Direct benefits for students:

• Better acclimation;
• Better informed;
• Improved intercultural communication;
• Increased intercultural competence;
• Friendship;
• Sense of belonging;
• Increased involvement in Park community/activities/events;
• Increased knowledge about Park.

Direct benefits for fac/staff:

• Better acclimation;
• Better informed;
• Improved cross-cultural communication;
• Friendship;
• Sense of belonging;
• Increased involvement in Park community/activities/events;
• Increased knowledge about Park.

Indirect benefits for Park:

• Improved cross-cultural communication;
• Friendship;
• Better informed;
• Sense of belonging;
• Increased involvement in Park community/activities/events;
• Increased awareness of the world/knowledge about other cultures;
• Use as professional development participation in annual/periodic performance reviews.