OUS Summer Institute - Academic Mentor

The Academic Mentor (AM) will work closely with the Academic Director and Co-Director
regarding all aspects of the summer program. Broadly, the Academic Mentor will be there as an
academic resource to the incoming cohort of students, helping them to hone their critical faculties
and facilitate scholarly habits of mind. This will include, among other responsibilities, continuing to
cultivate students' analytic and creative writing skills; planning workshops that allow students to
understand the philosophical foundations of the liberal arts; introduce students to the larger
Hamilton community/area; and offer study sessions throughout the summer.

In addition, the Academic Mentor will live in the dormitory with the students and oversee the
undergraduate Summer Institute Community Facilitators (CFs). This group of current Colgate
undergraduate students will also live in the dorm and the AM will coordinate all working hours and
programming put on by the CFs within the living/learning environment. In addition, the CFs will be
working on their own research projects over the summer that the AM will help oversee and
coordinate.

The AM will receive direct mentorship and training from the Co-Directors of the program in the
week leading up to the beginning of the SI.
Dates of employment are July 7 – August 15.