Integrating Peer Mentors Across First-Year Student Programs

October 18, 2011

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Overview

Learn how to incorporate peer mentors across curricular and co-curricular first-year student programs.

Peer mentor programs provide unparalleled opportunities for campuses to involve a large proportion of students directly in leadership positions and save costs in the process. Empowering students to advise and mentor their peers can reduce staff workload and allow those resources to be leveraged elsewhere on campus. Join us to learn how Longwood University's program utilizes a skeletal staff and a team of peer mentors to engage first-year students in both curricular and co-curricular programs.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Student affairs professionals responsible for orientation, the first-year student experience, or student leadership programs, as well as academic leaders involved in first-year student seminars, will benefit from this content.

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Agenda

Learning Outcome:

After participating in this webcast, attendees will know how to integrate peer mentors into both the curricular and co-curricular components of a first-year student experience program.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

1:00 - 2:45 p.m. EDT

Overview of Longwood University's program
Opportunities for incorporating peer mentors throughout first-year student programs
- Understanding a comprehensive approach to using peer mentors
Recruiting, interviewing, and training peer mentors
- Recruiting peer mentors
- Creative interview formats
- Training peer mentors
Measuring and recognizing success

Want more information about this event?

Contact Erin E. Swietlik, Conference Director if you'd like additional information about the program agenda.

Instructors

Sarah E. Whitley

Director, Office of First Year Experience

Longwood University

Sarah has served as the director of the Office of First Year Experience at Longwood University since May 2007. As the first director of this new university initiative, Sarah has developed and implemented a new peer mentor program that creates a holistic and seamless transition for new and transfer students through optional and mandatory components. She has extensive experience working with orientation and registration programs, welcome week events, common reading initiatives, learning communities, freshman seminars, family programs, student success and retention initiatives, and enrollment management. She recently developed a Blackboard-based summer correspondence and extended orientation program for peer mentors and new students. Additionally, Sarah instructs Longwood Seminar, serves as an academic advisor, and is a member of the university crisis-response CARE Team. She has presented regionally and nationally on peer mentoring and first-year student experience programs, student success initiatives, and building cross-divisional relationships on campus.

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