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Program highlight: Compass 2 Campus
7.6.10
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community | Compass 2 Campus | Cyndie Shepard | mentoring | on-campus events | service-learning | students | Woodring

The Compass 2 Campus Western Washington University Mentorship Initiative is a pilot program implemented by House Bill 1986 which passed both Houses of the legislature on April 21, 2009.

The program is designed to increase access to higher education by providing an opportunity for 5th grade students from traditionally underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds in Whatcom and Skagit counties to be mentored by university students.
State recognizes WWU mentoring program with Shuksan Middle School
10.28.09
Campus news
mentoring | students | woodring

Washington Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen visited Shuksan Middle School on Tuesday, Oct. 27, to honor Western Washington University’s Youth Outreach Initiative. The Woodring College of Education mentoring program provides tutoring and mentoring assistance for Shuksan students through in-class assistance and after-school programming.
New program brings hundreds of elementary students to Western for a day | The Bellingham Herald
10.28.09
In the media
C2C | Cyndie Shepard | faculty | mentoring | staff | students
More than 800 Whatcom and Skagit county fifth-graders became Western Washington University students for the day Tuesday, Oct.
Compass 2 Campus program brings hundreds of fifth graders to WWU
10.27.09
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C2C | mentoring | students

Hundreds of Western Washington University students have become mentors to fifth-graders this fall in a proactive effort to get more kids to see themselves as college-bound. On Tuesday, Oct. 27, those fifth graders from Skagit and Whatcom counties visited Western’s campus to see firsthand what a university campus is like.

Modeled after a successful program in Wisconsin, Compass 2 Campus aims to get more kids thinking early about college with the help of mentors and role models to show them the importance of higher education.

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