{"id":23232,"date":"2016-05-05T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T23:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=23232"},"modified":"2016-05-06T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:20:23","slug":"uccs-launches-online-networking-site-for-students-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=23232","title":{"rendered":"UCCS launches online networking site for students, alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23234\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lisa-Bartholme-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-mh-magazine-content wp-image-23234\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lisa-Bartholme-1-278x381.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Bartholme\" width=\"278\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Bartholme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mentoring-vs-3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-mh-magazine-content wp-image-23249\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mentoring-vs-3-484x381.jpeg\" alt=\"mentoring vs 3\" width=\"484\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a>UCCS recently launched an online networking site that includes a host of features designed to connect students and alumni.<\/p>\n<p>The UCCS Online Mentoring Network is \u201ca place where Mountain Lions around the world can connect to share professional development advice,\u201d according to the site.<\/p>\n<p>There are other mentoring programs on campus that focus on one-to-one relationships with alumni, said Lisa Bartholme, assistant director, Alumni Relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way to mass produce that on a campus,\u201d she said. \u201cStudents need mentoring, and alumni want to give back and help students. Before online mentoring, there was just no way to make that happen on a large scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Online Mentoring Network launched April 1 and now has 320 alumni and 100 students, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Alumni Relations is working with other campus departments, including the Career Center, Academic Advising and the Gateway Program Seminar, to encourage students to sign up for the network.<\/p>\n<p>Alumni on the network can offer students career advice, help with a job hunt or provide information about a particular company or part of the country, for example. The network allows users to connect with their LinkedIn profile and automatically upload their professional information, Bartholme said.<\/p>\n<p>For students, the network offers such features as sample messages they can use to initiate a mentoring relationship and a variety of search functions to connect with alumni in certain professions or part of the country, for example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a demand and a need on both sides,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>For information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/alumni\/mentoring.html\">http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/alumni\/mentoring.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UCCS recently launched an online networking site that includes a host of features designed to connect students and alumni. The UCCS Online Mentoring Network is \u201ca place where Mountain Lions around the world can connect <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=23232\" title=\"UCCS launches online networking site for students, alumni\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mentoring-vs-3.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-62I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23251,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232\/revisions\/23251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}