The Black Student Union is planning a new Leadership and Mentoring Program, which will match freshmen with upper class mentors.
"The ultimate goal is to help incoming black students get better acclimated to the Princeton community," said Brandon Nicholson '05, one of the program's organizers.
Freshmen who sign up for the program will meet weekly with their mentors.
They will also gather several times monthly with a family group consisting of five mentor-mentee pairs.
"We want to help build a welcoming community," said Brittani Kirkpatrick '05, also a program organizer.
Nicholson said the program hopes to "prepare and inform freshmen so they can be more involved" in student government and other campus organizations and activities.
LAMP seeks "as much and as broad a representation as possible," Nicholson added.
Though the program stems from the BSU, both BSU members and nonmembers served on the committee to develop it, and though it is intended for black mentees, mentors of all races are welcome.
"We're not seeing this as a BSU thing, or a black student thing. It's a campus-wide thing," Nicholson said.
He added that LAMP could be a pilot program, whose format could be adopted in the future by other student groups with similar goals.
Mentors can currently sign up for the program electronically, and potential mentees from the class of 2007 will soon be contacted by mail.
"We view this as a great opportunity for the campus at large," Nicholson said.
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