The mission of the Black Student Union Leadership and Mentoring Program (LAMP) is to assist first year students in their transition into campus life. Designed to provide students with a support network to encourage academic and social exploration, the Leadership and Mentoring Program matches each freshman year participant with a mentor from the sophomore, junior or senior class. The program seeks to match participants with similar academic and social background. Recognizing the valuable resource undergraduate students can be for each other, the program's goal is to have mentors assist first year students in locating resources that will enable them to achieve greater success in their Princeton careers. The combination of one-on-one mentoring and cluster mentoring will serve to provide participants with support to encourage individual growth and contributions to the general Princeton community.

 

 

 

The W.E.B. Du Bois Intellectual Series:

In these monthly discussion meetings, members of the BSU get the chance to learn from one of the University's African-American professors in an intimate, communal setting. At each meeting, a Black faculty member presents a topic and facilitates a discussion with a small group of students. The discussion series helps to foster relationships amongst Black scholars at Princeton and raise awareness of intellectual issues that face the Black community at large. The first William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Intellectual Series was organized by Jamaal Clue '06 and Tamara Whitaker '06 in the fall of 2003, and featured Professor Cornel West.
Click here to see pictures from the last Du Bois Series.