First Year Experience Peer Mentor (Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA)
The First Year Experience (FYE) peer mentor program aims to improve and enhance student success in the first year and beyond. Peer Mentors will give a “student’s point of view” of college life and act as a coach guiding students to appropriate campus resources. Peer mentors are open-minded, organized, educationally driven, have a positive attitude towards college life, participate in campus life, engaging, and is considered a role model. The Peer Mentors will be linked with a specific course with enrolled mentees in order to provide assistance to the faculty member through participation, role modeling behavior, and following up with mentee’s that have missed or are falling behind in their studies.
Responsibilities
- Meet mentees once week for the first month of classes and then bi-weekly till the end of the term
- Attends collaborative peer mentor training and supplemental FYE mentor trainings
- Meets bi-weekly with the FYE Coordinator and FYE peer mentor team
- Maintain journals/logs tracking self and student interaction and attendance
- Attends assigned class session and meets with faculty instructor
- Assists in planning and attends workshops as assigned
- Reads the Ranger Read selection
- Coach mentees through the first year and provide support, motivation, and guidance
Compensation: $500 stipend per semester
To apply please contact Andrea Zick, First Year Experience Coordinator, at zick@uwp.edu or apply through the Student Leadership Selection Process.
