{"id":15,"date":"2009-10-26T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:08:13","slug":"giving-to-espaesp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/giving-to-espaesp\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving to ESP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-7xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row-reverse mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-7xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 60%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Giving to ESP\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p><em> They believed they could succeed at university&#8230;we agreed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"cu-textmedia-bgimg flex-1 rounded-xl bg-no-repeat bg-cover \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/Jude-Ofili-and-Jerry-Tomberlin-banner-768x384.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%; transform: scale(1);\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/success-stories\/\">Check out our Success Stories<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1919\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/6C2A9903-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"University students in the Enriched Support Program working together in a classroom.\n\" class=\"wp-image-15645\" style=\"width:436px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/6C2A9903-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/6C2A9903-edited-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/6C2A9903-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/6C2A9903-edited-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/6C2A9903-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/6C2A9903-edited-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/6C2A9903-edited-2048x1535.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Giving to ESP Student Mentors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peer mentorship provides crucial, front-line support for students in ESP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/allen-b-clarke-and-dennis-forcese-cie-access-endowment-fund\/\">DONATE TODAY<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>to reward ESP Student Mentors&nbsp;<\/strong>for giving back through their actions and example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentors are former ESP students who have successfully completed the program and want to give back by orienting new ESP students into all aspects of university life: academic, social, and institutional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ESP Peer Mentorship program ensures that current ESP students have relateable peers available in their first year seminar class as role models and guides &#8211; to answer their questions and show them that success at university is possible! For the mentors, it is an opportunity to help others, build professional skills, and hold meaningful, paid employment at the university as they continue into their degree studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2023-11-24-at-9.31.35-AM-edited.png\" alt=\"A graduating ESP student smiles at the camera and holds up the medal she has been awarded.\" class=\"wp-image-15644\" style=\"width:427px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2023-11-24-at-9.31.35-AM-edited.png 486w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2023-11-24-at-9.31.35-AM-edited-320x240.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Giving to ESP students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, ESP students can win awards and qualify for bursaries that assist them in paying for essential tuition and university expenses!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/enriched-support-program-scholarship-funds-centre-for-initiatives-in-education\/\">DONATE TODAY<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>to inspire ESP students&nbsp;<\/strong>to achieve their academic goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our endowed fund provides yearly award funding for ESP students&nbsp;who achieve a GPA of A- or higher as they successfully complete ESP and proceed to a degree program. The knowledge that they can win an award motivates ESP students to work hard, maintain good academic habits, and use all the ESP resources during the year \u2013 workshops, coaching, mentors, and advising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the revenue from this fund, we award former ESP students with funding towards their tuition as they continue with their degree studies at Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Derek deLouch\u00e9, CFRE<br>Senior Development Officer, Special Projects<br>Carleton University<br>1125 Colonel By Dr. Ottawa, ON<br>4104 Human Computer Interaction Building<br><a href=\"mailto:derek.delouche@carleton.ca\">derek.delouche@carleton.ca<\/a><br>Tel: 613-520-2600 Ext: 3397<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out our Success Stories Giving to ESP Student Mentors Peer mentorship provides crucial, front-line support for students in ESP. DONATE TODAY&nbsp;&nbsp;to reward ESP Student Mentors&nbsp;for giving back through their actions and example. Mentors are former ESP students who have successfully completed the program and want to give back by orienting new ESP students into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[62],"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15648,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/15648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}