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<\/a>Taylor Bembery<\/strong> Sarah Brown, Miss Jackson State University 2012-2013, has put her \u201cMolding the Minds\u201d mentoring program into action.<\/p>\n \u201cMolding the Minds\u201d pairs JSU freshmen with upperclassmen, and upperclassmen with JSU alumni and employees in an effort to provide guidance to students and produce student leaders and academic scholars.<\/p>\n More than 100 freshmen have signed up for a mentor, and over 50 upperclassmen have enrolled to mentor them.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I first came to JSU as a freshman, I had no one who was around my age to talk to about general advice only an upperclassmen would know; simple things like that. I said that once I got in a leadership position, I would give the incoming freshmen what I never had,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n Mekel Johnson, a junior marketing major and mentor in the \u201cMolding the Minds\u201d program from Los Angeles, Calif., believes that the program has given her the chance to better herself.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to be a mentor because I didn\u2019t want anybody to start school how I started school with no positive guidance,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n Johnson also believes that the program is helping her gain more responsibility.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m learning that my actions affect other people and they can be mimicked by my mentee. I\u2019m trying to better myself by mentoring someone else in a positive way,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n Jessica Stubbs, a freshman psychology major from Ridgeland, Miss. and Mekel Johnson\u2019s mentee in the \u201cMolding the Minds\u201d program, explained that being in a mentoring program was nothing new to her.<\/p>\n \u201dDuring my senior year at Ridgeland High School, I was a mentor at an elementary school and I thought it would be interesting to actually be a mentee to someone,\u201d said Stubbs.<\/p>\n Stubbs added that being in this program gives her the opportunity to call someone her \u201cBig Sister\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI encourage freshmen to get mentors because it gives them a chance to have guidance from someone they can relate to easily,\u201d said Stubbs.<\/p>\n Brown encourages students to join this program because they will have a chance to build friendships, connections, and bridges that will help them through their college matriculation.<\/p>\n \u201cMy platform is all about bigger service, bigger impact, and bigger success. This mentoring program falls under impact,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n Brown encourages all students, faculty, staff and alumni interested in becoming a mentor or a mentee in the \u201cMolding the Minds\u201d program to send an email to missjsu2013@gmail.com or call the Center for Student Engagement and Inclusion at 601-979-4224 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taylor Bembery Blue & White Flash\/Staff Writer Sarah Brown, Miss Jackson State University 2012-2013, has put her \u201cMolding the Minds\u201d mentoring program into action. \u201cMolding…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_plus_post_options":"{}","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBlue & White Flash\/Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n