Innovative Educators

Peer Mentoring For Transfer Students: Creating A Bridge That Helps Students Succeed

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Registration Fee: $345.00

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Key Takeaway:

Participants will be able to design guidelines for a peer mentor program to fit their specific institutional needs, review potential funding sources and costs, develop position descriptions and hiring recommendations, and target scarce advising resources to create enhanced student development opportunities in an exceptional learning experience.

Overview:

As public funding for colleges and universities diminishes in a poor economy, coupled with an increasing emphasis on accountability for retention and graduation rates, academic and student affairs specialists face multiple challenges. To meet these expectations at a large metropolitan university that enrolls more than 10,000 new transfers each academic year, an innovative Peer Mentor program was developed. The successful program assists students as they prepare for transfer, helps them through their transition and guides them as they progress to graduation. Through collaboration with multiple partners, this peer program trains students to be first-level academic advisors, provides them a structure and support to develop transition programming that meets the needs of new transfer students, and creates a bridge for new students into the academic and social life of the campus community.

Join us to learn how to develop a rationale to garner institutional support, provide guidelines for hiring and training practices, talk about unusual roles that peers can fill, and discuss many ways transfer students are uniquely suited to be the advocates for and the voice of students, while developing their individual potential for leadership and success in a professional setting.

Objectives:

Participants will:

Review components of a successful peer mentor program
Develop a rationale (ROI) for institutional support of a peer program
Share successful recruitment and hiring plans
Discuss elements of training critical to advising success
Discover roles peer mentors can play in academic preparation and the successful transition of transfer students

Who should attend?

2-year institutions & 4-year institutions
Dean of Student Services/Affairs
Admissions
Advising
Career Services
Disabilities Services
Financial Aid
Residence Life
Retention Specialist
Student Life
Veteran Services
Advisors
Academic units
Assessment
First Year Experience
Learning Centers
Tutoring

Dr. Mark Allen Poisel

“Colleges are expected to provide a rich learning environment for student learning, growth, and development. This Peer Mentor program offers a unique experience to transfer students to engage in the campus community, experience work in a professional setting, and foster their leadership potential.”

Dr. Mark Allen Poisel
Associate Provost for Student Success
Pace University

As the former Associate Vice President for Student Development and Enrollment Services and Academic Development and Retention at the University Central Florida, he led the efforts to enhance retention, create transfer, veterans, and second year centers, coordinate advising needs for first time in college students, and develop publications. He has also presented numerous speeches and workshops on the issues of transfer and transition services, advising, retention, and student affairs assessment. He serves on the advisory boards for the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition as well as the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students. He is co-author of several publications and co-editor for a monograph on transfer student issues published by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a master’s degree in College Student Personnel Work from Indiana State University and his specialist and doctorate in Higher Education from The Florida State University.

Charlene A. Stinard
Director of Transfer and Transition Services
University of Central Florida

Charlene A. Stinard is Director of Transfer and Transition Services at the University of Central Florida, where she promotes the academic preparation and successful transition of more than 10,000 students transferring to UCF each year, and serves as advocate to foster their retention and graduation. Ms. Stinard’s research interests include issues of articles dealing with inter-institutional and intra-institutional collaboration to improve transfer student success. Ms. Stinard has presented at national, regional, and state conferences and presented webinars on transfer issues. She earned her BA in Political Science at the State University College at New Paltz, New York; her MA in Political Theory from Columbia University, New York; she did doctoral studies in American Government at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.