Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Building Primary/Secondary Teaching Capacities in the Dadaab Refugee Camps and Locally in Dadaab, Kenya by Increasing Access to Higher Education
Project Number: S065668
Terms of Reference
Student Mentorship Committee
Purpose
The goal of the Student Mentorship Committee (SMC) is to aid the work of the Mentorship Program. It develops guidelines on transnational mentoring and assists with the prudent management of mentors who volunteer to support BHER students throughout their studies in the programs of their choice. The Committee reports annually to the BHER Team on issues around mentorship.
Members of Student Mentorship Committee
| Name | Function | Institution | E-mail address |
| Siraji Sirajudiin | Member | YU/WUSC | siraji@yorku.ca |
| Negin Dahya | Member | YU | negin.dahya@gmail.com |
| New Scholars Network Representative | Member | YU | |
| Atieno Adala | Member | AVU | aadala@avu.org |
| Sarah Dryden-Peterson | Member | Harvard University | sarah_dryden@post.harvard.edu |
| Wanjiku Khamasi | Member | MU | jcchiko@africaonline.co.ke |
| Isabella Mbai/Judith Mangeni | Member | MU | imodia2002@yahoo.com/ nakholi2001@yahoo.com |
| Mohammed Halane | Member | UBC | halanemoha@hotmail.com |
Meeting time
SMC meets at least quarterly or more often as need arises. Its meetings happen virtually via Skype, Webex or other communication platform appropriate to all participants and are coordinated by York University.
See Research on mentorship in Dadaab by two members of this Committee:
- Dryden-Peterson, Sarah, Negin Dahya, and Elizabeth Adelman. 2017. Pathways to educational success among refugees: Connecting locally and globally situated resources. American Educational Research Journal. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/0002831217714321