Peer Mentors are people who believe they can make a difference in first-year students’ lives. As a mentor, you will be paired with a first-year or transfer student to provide friendship, guidance and support throughout their first semester.

There are many benefits to becoming a mentor. You will meet new people and make friends; learn responsibility, professionalism, and leadership skills; receive a stipend; help first-year students – make a difference in their “college experience,” and have fun!

You can become a mentor if you are a full-time student for the 2004-2005 academic year, free of disciplinary sanctions, in good academic standing, and at least sophomore standing when you begin mentoring. To become a mentor you submit the application, and will then be called to an individual interview.

If selected as a mentor you are expected to attend the training, “Meet Your Mentor” party and, together with your protégé, the social events that are organized by the network. You also facilitate individual meetings with your protégé.

For the first four weeks you meet with your protégé once a week and every other week for the remainder of the semester. When and where these meetings take place is up to you and your protégés discretion. After each meeting, you will fill out a brief status report. This status report is our only quantitative measure of the peer network and is therefore important not only as a means of reporting your activity but for the whole network.