OUR PROGRAM
The Pride And Life Skills mentoring program (PALS) is a cooperative venture between The Ohio State University at Marion, Marion Mentors, and Marion City Schools PALS connects college students from the Marion campus with children in the Marion area to provide one-on-one mentoring opportunities for younger students
2024 UPDATES
The Ohio State University Office of Outreach and Engagement recognized PALS as 1 of 18 programs university-wide for excellence in engaged scholarship The certification process seeks to identify and certify projects annually that demonstrate excellence in community-engaged scholarship and meet the criteria of high-impact engaged scholarship According to program organizers, PALS meets these goals by contributing to children in the Marion community in a profound way. Read more at: https://osumarion.osu.edu/story/pals-scholar
A group of students in Dr McCorkle’s Digital Activism course (English 3011 01) designed a social media campaign to promote PALS Working with the Office of Communications and Marketing, images featuring active PALS mentors were distributed over the campus Instagram and Facebook accounts Several new mentors were recruited as a result!
This year, thanks to an OSU Engagement Grant, we had the pleasure of welcoming two PALS Fellows: Stephanie Karrick and Jacob Redmond. In addition to their mentoring roles, Stephanie and Jacob actively supported new PALS mentors and spearheaded initiatives to recruit additional mentors, including organizing a delightful hot chocolate bar event in February
NEWS
Stephanie Karrick and Jacob Redmond presented a poster on their PALS experiences at the 2024 Ohio State Marion Undergraduate Research Colloquium.
IIn 2024, PALS welcomed Toy Pendleton as the new Program Director for Marion Mentors. We are excited to collaborate with Toy and express our gratitude for the years of dedication that Haley Wilkes provided to our students.
AT A GLANCE...
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COORDINATORS
Ben McCorkle | Professor, Department of English
Nikole Patson | Professor, Department of Psychology
Toy Pendleton | Director of Youth and Teen, Marion Mentors
