{"id":69,"date":"2024-04-10T21:20:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/experience-tst.syr.edu\/intercultural-collective\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:11:20","slug":"dimensions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/experience.syracuse.edu\/intercultural-collective\/belonging-and-student-success\/dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dimensions is a peer-to-peer mentoring program for students served by the Intercultural Collective. This program endeavors to create a sisterhood for its members through intentional dialogue and activities that support self-confidence, academic success and cross-cultural engagement. Dimensions participants&nbsp;strengthen their leadership skills and critical thinking to help support the communities they are a part of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All activities are open to all eligible students without regard to race, gender, national origin or other characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\n  \n<a href=\"https:\/\/students.syr.edu\/forms\/secure\/index.php?from=intercultural-collective&amp;form=1953820\" class='button margin-bottom margin-right button-secondary' style=\"display: inline-block\"  >\n  \n  Apply to become a 2026-27 Dimensions Mentee\n      <span class=\"icon-right\">\n      <i class=\"icon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\n    <\/span>\n  <\/a>\n\n\n  \n<a href=\"https:\/\/students.syr.edu\/forms\/secure\/index.php?from=intercultural-collective&amp;form=1954484\" class='button margin-bottom button-secondary' style=\"display: inline-block\"  >\n  \n  Apply to become a 2026-27 Dimensions Mentor\n      <span class=\"icon-right\">\n      <i class=\"icon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\n    <\/span>\n  <\/a>\n\n\n  <\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Dimensions<\/h2>\n\n\n<div role=\"region\" class=\"accordion\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-item border border-gray-light\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header-text\">\n        <h3 class=\"margin-bottom-0\">\n          <button class=\"accordion-header full-width background-gray-light-30 border-0 margin-0 padding-top-2 padding-bottom-2 padding-left-3 padding-right-3\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            Mission            <div class='accordion-toggle icon-right' class=''>\n              <i class='icon-chevron-right'><\/i>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/button>\n        <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class='accordion-content'>\n        <p><span>Dimensions&#8217; mission is to address and generate awareness of issues that impact women from diverse backgrounds through a facilitated mentoring program in which women of color support each other, engage in dialogue about pertinent issues, and acquire leadership and professional development skills. Dimensions seeks to create a place where women of color feel comfortable and included, not only at Syracuse University, but also within the larger Syracuse community. Members will have opportunities to enlarge their awareness on global issues that impact women from diverse cultural backgrounds and to engage in projects that influence the well-being of these communities of women.<\/span><\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n      <div class=\"accordion-item border border-gray-light\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header-text\">\n        <h3 class=\"margin-bottom-0\">\n          <button class=\"accordion-header full-width background-gray-light-30 border-0 margin-0 padding-top-2 padding-bottom-2 padding-left-3 padding-right-3\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            Benefits            <div class='accordion-toggle icon-right' class=''>\n              <i class='icon-chevron-right'><\/i>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/button>\n        <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class='accordion-content'>\n        <ul>\n<li>Develop a one-to-one mentoring experience.<\/li>\n<li>Gain leadership, time management and communication skills.<\/li>\n<li>Develop lifelong relationships with peers.<\/li>\n<li>Create sustaining and helpful relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Become a part of a sisterhood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n      <div class=\"accordion-item border border-gray-light\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header-text\">\n        <h3 class=\"margin-bottom-0\">\n          <button class=\"accordion-header full-width background-gray-light-30 border-0 margin-0 padding-top-2 padding-bottom-2 padding-left-3 padding-right-3\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            Programming            <div class='accordion-toggle icon-right' class=''>\n              <i class='icon-chevron-right'><\/i>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/button>\n        <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class='accordion-content'>\n        <p><span>Dimensions meets weekly on Fridays from 3-5 p.m. Our weekly sessions in the fall are focused on the transition to college life, navigating culture shock, building community and goal setting. In the spring, all sessions are led by our Dimensions Mentors and range from topics like mental health, representation in media, colorism, holistic wellness and more.<\/span><\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n      <div class=\"accordion-item border border-gray-light\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header-text\">\n        <h3 class=\"margin-bottom-0\">\n          <button class=\"accordion-header full-width background-gray-light-30 border-0 margin-0 padding-top-2 padding-bottom-2 padding-left-3 padding-right-3\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            Application Process            <div class='accordion-toggle icon-right' class=''>\n              <i class='icon-chevron-right'><\/i>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/button>\n        <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class='accordion-content'>\n        <h3>Mentee Application Process<\/h3>\n<p>Dimensions is a sisterhood where people can come together to create an environment where women of color can support each other, engage in dialogue on issues pertinent to women of color, and acquire leadership and professional development skills.<\/p>\n<p><span data-renderer-mark=\"true\" data-text-custom-color=\"#172b4d\" class=\"fabric-text-color-mark\">If you are looking to join Dimensions as a mentee, <a href=\"https:\/\/students.syr.edu\/forms\/secure\/index.php?from=intercultural-collective&amp;form=1953820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please apply online<\/a>.\u202f Applications are due <strong>Monday, Sept. 14th, 2026. <\/strong><\/span>If you have any questions, please call<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"tel:+13154430228\">315.443.0228<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>or email<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:belonging@syr.edu\">belonging@syr.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Mentor Application Process<\/h3>\n<p>Mentors are selected through an application process held in the spring semester. <span>Recruitment will span from January to March 2026 and applications must be submitted <strong>before Friday, April 3rd , 2026 at 5pm<\/strong>.<\/span> Once completed applications are submitted, applicants go through interviews followed by decision letters.<\/p>\n<p>Once accepted as a Dimensions mentor, a mandatory retreat is required as part of training. The training involves an in-depth analysis of mentors&#8217; lifestyles, specifically via exercises that push mentors to critically reflect upon their lives, culture and understanding of people and themselves. Additionally, various training exercises and modules are used to gain a better understanding of what it means to be a mentor.<\/p>\n<p><span>All interested applicants are encouraged to apply as Mentors, especially junior and senior women and those who have been a mentee or mentor previously.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/students.syr.edu\/forms\/secure\/index.php?from=intercultural-collective&amp;form=1954484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mentor Applications<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for the 2026-27 academic year are due <span>Friday, April 3rd, 2026 at 5pm.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n      <div class=\"accordion-item border border-gray-light\">\n      <div class=\"accordion-header-text\">\n        <h3 class=\"margin-bottom-0\">\n          <button class=\"accordion-header full-width background-gray-light-30 border-0 margin-0 padding-top-2 padding-bottom-2 padding-left-3 padding-right-3\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            History (Her Story)            <div class='accordion-toggle icon-right' class=''>\n              <i class='icon-chevron-right'><\/i>\n            <\/div>\n          <\/button>\n        <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class='accordion-content'>\n        <p><span>The Dimensions Mentoring Program was created in 2002 in the Office of Multicultural Affairs. During that time, the climate of the University and the student leaders were primarily male. As many of the young women on campus wanted to have their voices heard, they needed a forum where that could be properly formed and established. Dimensions was created to help facilitate a space where self-identified women of color could transition through college with a support network. The program focuses on pairing first-year and transfer students with upperclass women with whom they form bonds, sisterhood, obtain academic and professional resources, and learn to address the issues that face their communities.\u00a0Over the years, Dimensions has mentored over 600 first-year and transfer women of color, many of whom return to the program to become mentors.<\/span><\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimensions is a peer-to-peer mentoring program for students served by the Intercultural Collective. 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