Mentorship and Awards
Connect with other students from around the world. Develop employability skills. Build relationships with your peers while enhancing your cultural awareness and intercultural skills inside and outside the classroom.
Mentorships
Mentorship is a guiding relationship where a person who has lived through a specific experience, shares that experience with another person new to that experience, to help them gain confidence, insight, and knowledge, and set them up for personal and professional success.
Good mentoring requires time, commitment and willingness to act as a positive role model who will create safe spaces for insightful conversations to occur. Mentors are matched primarily on interests.
Intercultural Mentorship Program
Local students or staff pair up with international/immigrant students for a term to explore intercultural connections, make new friends, and provide support during their RRC journey.
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Step Out of Your Box Program
This program offers students the opportunity to enhance their understanding of diversity, challenge biases and stereotypes, and help build a socially involved campus and community. The program is based on a model of Experiential Service Learning which means “learning by doing”. Student will have the opportunity to explore and develop an understanding of the dimensions of diversity that make us unique individuals and connect with others in meaningful ways while building valuable career-related skills.
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Diversity Ambassadors Program
Three Diversity Ambassador positions are available for current immigrant and international students in full-time academic programs. The Ambassadors spend a minimum of 50 hours over the year to share their experience, promote diversity on campus, provide peer-support and assist various programs/services across RRC to organize events and activities. This program develops student leaders who are committed to promoting diversity and creating an inclusive environment on campus.
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Internationally Educated Nurses Workplace Partnership Program
This program matches Internationally Educated Nurses with Canadian Registered Nurses for support and voluntary mentorship, as one component of the Bridging Program for Internationally Educated Nurses (BPIEN) at RRC.
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Professional Mentor Program for Imaging Technologists
This program matches immigrant and international students enrolled in either the Medical Radiologic Technology (MRT) Diploma or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Spectroscopy Post-Graduate Diploma program at RRC with a practicing imaging technologist for support and voluntary mentorship during the student’s studies. The PMPIT currently runs three times per year to meet the needs of all eligible students in the various MRT and MRI intakes.
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Awards
Red River College offers several awards that recognize your contribution to, and excellence in, exploring and embracing diversity.
The Richard Asher Webb Social Justice Activist Memorial Award
This $800 award is given annually to a student for the demonstration of exceptional effort and/or the ability to lead, organize and engage students or the members of the community in emerging or sustained commitment to the values of equity, diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism and social justice.
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Peace Award
Two $1,000 Peace Awards are presented annually to current students in full-time career programs who entered Canada as refugees or refugee claimants. These awards honour the courage, strength and determination of students who were forced to flee their homes under threat of persecution, conflict and violence and have shown perseverance in reaching their educational goals, while overcoming challenges and adapting to a new life in Canada.
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Step Out of Your Box Award
Four awards of $500 each are presented annually to students who explore a dimension of diversity different from their own, and produce a project that promotes that dimension of diversity, or benefits a volunteer organization.
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Making a World of Difference Award
$1,000 presented to two global-local partnerships (ie. $500 per individual) who have participated in the Intercultural Mentorship Program (IMP) at any campus and who best fulfil all of the following criteria in either Term 1 or Term 2. This award is student-focused, but staff and faculty are also eligible to apply as part of an Intercultural Mentorship Program partnership with a student.
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