Community Engagement
The Get Set Mentoring Program is a student-led program designed to help new students connect, make friends, and understand the UQ community better. Peer mentors guide new UQ students through the first 6 weeks of semester, teaching them tips and tricks to navigate university life and settle into their studies.
Through participation in the Get Set Mentoring Program as a Peer Mentor, students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Share knowledge by signposting to appropriate resources, opportunities to become involved in the campus community, and learn to independently locate support services
- Successfully participate in experiences that foster and strengthen intercultural competencies and cultural humility
- Consider the welfare of others when making decisions and hold themselves accountable for obligations and commitments
- Model the capacities of positive mentoring, including active listening, compassion, responsiveness, sensitivity to concerns, and confidentiality
Participation as a Peer Mentor in the Get Set Mentoring Program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Connected citizens
- Culturally capable
- Influential communicators
Student-Staff Partnership Projects connect students and staff as equal partners and collaborators on projects that seek to enhance the UQ community - effecting positive change within the teaching and learning, student experience and governance/strategy environments. Students engage in up to 21 weeks of collaboration on their project in their partnership teams.
Through participation in a Student-Staff Partnership Project students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Understand the partnership ethos, premised upon respect, mutual learning, accountability and shared responsibility.
- Integrate diverse perspectives to enable collaborative partnership
- Apply project management strategies and tools
- Communicate confidently across diverse contexts
- Effect transformational change and value continuous improvement
Participation in Student Staff Partnership projects also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Courageous thinkers
- Connected citizens
- Influential communicators
The EAIT Leaders Extension Program is a diverse community of highly-engaged undergraduate and postgraduate coursework student leaders within the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and IT, aiming to develop their leadership skills, contribute to the University and improve the student experience for others. Students are invited to join the program after completing the Leaders a EAIT pathway program.
Students continue their journey of leadership and development through shaping and assisting with the delivery of events, representing EAIT at faculty engagement and student experience sessions, mentoring and providing guidance to Leaders at EAIT pathway participants, and attending regular training and debrief sessions to reflect on their leadership growth.
Through completion of the EAIT Leaders Extension program, students have demonstrated their ability to:
- Apply leadership skills in practical, dynamic environments
- Mentor peers and foster inclusive leadership development
- Contribute to the planning and logistics of events in a professional manner
- Facilitate reflection and feedback to support program improvement
- Represent the EAIT Faculty with integrity and professionalism
- Strengthen employability through demonstrated leadership in faculty-wide initiatives
Participation in the EAIT Leaders Extension program also contributes to the development of the following UQ Graduate Attributes:
- Connected citizens
- Influential communicators
- Respectful leaders