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First-Generation and/or Low-Income Student Enrichment Services STUDENT ENRICHMENT SERVICES Foster-Walker Complex, House 6, 1927 Orrington Avenue northwestern.edu/enrichment 847-467-4577
enrichment@northwestern.edu
Student Enrichment Services works with Northwestern students who identify as first-generation college and/or low-income students. SES staff is eager to connect you with a wide range of campus resources—from mentors and financial aid advisers to the laptop loaner program and special events for students and families.
WHO WE ARE
The SES staff includes
w Kourtney Cockrell, director w Sharitza Rivera, assistant director w Christina A. Smith, administrative assistant The staff works to create and maintain close partnerships with other student service offices and centers across the University. Through SES’s partnership with the Undergraduate Financial Aid Office, for example, the staff is able to assist students with filing financial aid appeals and requesting supplemental funding for student health insurance and other expenses. ONLINE RESOURCE PORTAL
COMPASS MENTOR PROGRAM
LAPTOP LOANER PROGRAM
In addition to an active social media
SES’s Compass Mentor Program pairs
Starting September 18, SES’s laptop
presence, SES maintains a resource por-
students with mentors who also iden-
loaner program will have a limited sup-
tal on its website with links to informa-
tify as first-gen and/or low-income stu-
ply of laptops available for qualifying
tion about school-based financial aid
dents. Compass meetings take place
students to use during the entire quar-
opportunities, career-related resources
weekly over dinner, and incoming par-
ter at no cost. See the SES website for
for low-income students, sources of sup-
ticipants meet with their assigned men-
details.
port for undergraduate research and
tor every other week. Students may
study abroad, and more.
apply for Compass mentoring starting September 1; details to be announced.