Transfer Connections calendar highlights
Semester at-a-Glance: Below are our signature events and activities. These vary from year to year, so all participants receive full calendars in our monthly newsletters and email reminders.
March-July
- Transfer Connections Mentee fall admit applications available
August
- Mentee applications due
- Mentor groups finalized and announced
September
- Transfer Connections Fall Kickoff welcome event for mentors and mentees
- Cider Mill Outing social visit to a local cider mill and corn maze
- Transfer Connections Monthly Coffee Social
- Scheduled 1 on 1 meeting with mentor
October
- [How Not to Waste Your] First Summer at UM interactive workshop to help students learn more internships, research and volunteering deadlines and prepare for these opportunities
- Stressbusters and Study Skills Workshop learn tips to stay healthy, learn time management and study skills, enjoy food, chair massages and de-stress activities
- Transfer Connections Monthly Coffee Social
- Scheduled 1 on 1 meeting with mentor
November
- Law School Interactive Tour annual event hosted by faculty/staff mentors and law school professionals, visit the law quad, see residence halls and enjoy dinner in the Lawyer's Club
- Scheduled 1 on 1 meeting with mentor
- Transfer Connections Monthly Coffee Social
December
- Complete midyear survey for participant feedback/inform of winter semester participation
- Transfer Connections winter admit applications available
January
- Transfer Connections Winter Kickoff welcome event for mentors and mentees
- Recruitment and selection begins for Transfer Connections Mentors
February
- Medical School Interactive Tour Q&A with current medical and pre-med students, the admissions dean and attend a lab tour.
- Movie night
- Sporting Event
- Transfer Connections Monthly Coffee Social
March
- Arts Performance
- Resume Workshop
- Transfer Connections Monthly Coffee Social
April
- Closing Celebration/farewell event