Graduate Student Network
2026 Mentorship Program: Seeking Mentors
The Mentorship Program is intended to provide graduate students an opportunity to have informal contact with scholars or peers in the areas of service-learning and community engagement. Mentors and mentees are encouraged to engage in conversations about research interests, life in academia, tenure track tips, careers outside of academia, professional development, and navigating professional associations, conferences or graduate school.
We are currently seeking mentors for our GradSN members. Please fill out this form to express your interest in serving as mentor.
The Graduate Student Network (GradSN) is open to all emerging scholars interested in service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) including current graduate students (master’s and doctoral), prospective graduate students, students in between graduate programs, or recent graduates.
To join the GradSN and receive the GradSN monthly newsletter, submit the statement of intent.
The GradSN supports emerging scholars through:
Professional development workshops at the annual IARSLCE conference
Mentoring opportunities with established scholars
Professional development workshops throughout the year
A graduate student only listserv
Research advancement opportunities
Networking opportunities
We invite all emerging scholars to participate in any of our monthly steering committee calls. We also invite all emerging scholars to join one of our committees:
Conference Planning Committee
Membership and Communications Committee
Professional Development Committee
Mentoring Committee
Time Commitment: All emerging scholars interested in SLCE are invited to participate GradSN offerings regardless of their participation in any committee work. This GradSN steering committee convenes once per month. Members who join additional committees will spend time between calls coordinating and working on their various projects.
Contact: gradsn@iarslce.org