Lamp Overview & Objectives

Serving as a LAMP mentor is a great opportunity to represent your department and demonstrate your institutional knowledge. In general, LAMP seeks empathetic and adaptable individuals that wish to make a positive impact in a student’s life. Interested individuals must be willing to learn more, and continuously inform themselves, about campus resources and their department to properly connect and engage new students with information and opportunities. A willingness to relate personal experience to the dreams, goals, and concerns of new students is highly desirable for effective support and guidance.

Requirements

• Must have a minimum of a 2.75 cumulative GPA (3.0 cumulative GPA preferred)
• Must have completed two semesters at MTSU before fall semester begins
• Attend Mentor Training in the summer and early fall
• Initiate contact with incoming freshmen during the summer
• Maintain regular contact with mentees
• Accumulate 2.5 contact hours a week through

• Office hours for in-person interaction/video call/call at the LAMP Office, located in CLA Advising Center (Peck Hall 134); or
• Taking a mentee to a campus resource and helping them learn more about a campus resource; or
• Attending a university sponsored or CLA sponsored event or activity with a mentee, or a group of mentees, to engage them with the campus and/or community

Compensation
(Fall) August – December – 15 weeks/2.5 hours per week/$12 per hour
(Spring) January – May – 15 weeks/2.5 hours per week/$12 per hour

Monthy payroll per MTSU Pay Schedule

Application Timeline

Applications Open – January 21, 2025

Applications Due – February 21, 2025

Interviews – February 24 – March 28, 2025

Notification of Selection – March 31, 2025

Training Timeline

Summer Training – Mid-July 2025

Fall Training – Early August 2025