This year, the new Mentorship@upei initiative, launched through the Coordinator of Student Retention and Engagement, provides an avenue for faculty and staff to interact with new students, recognizing that many of them have basic questions or anxieties about adjusting to university, or simply require a person whom they know they can talk to. As universities everywhere, especially in the Atlantic region, identify enrolment and retention as critical challenges and a front for ever-greater competition, the imperative is clear to enhance the overall level of student engagement and success. This begins with the individual student, and with a human touch, and provides us collectively with an opportunity to show that at UPEI students truly do come first. To date, more than 80 staff and faculty colleagues have signed up to participate in the Mentorship program, and there is room for more....