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What are Peer Mentors?
The OSUIT Peer Mentors are students whose primary role is to assist other students in all things OSUIT through a peer to peer format! Some responsibilities of Peer Mentors include:
What is the FYE Conference?
The annual conference on the First Year Experience provides an on-going forum where higher education professionals and their student teams can share experiences, concerns, and accomplishments related to supporting student learning, development and success in the first year of college. The conference aims to promote a comprehensive and engaging community open to a diversity of ideas, in which all delegates are given the opportunity and resources to grow personally and professionally.
Support Us: How this project will help OSUIT.
The Research is in! Peer to Peer Mentoring Works!
The transition to college can be overwhelming. By connecting new students to peer mentors, we will be better equipped to share campus resources and opportunities.
Because the mentor/mentee relationship is a peer relationship, the mentor becomes one of the most likely people that a student will turn to in the event of academic difficulty, homesickness, intense life events (e.g., a sexual assault, an arrest over alcohol, etc.), or a medical crisis or death in the family.
When peer mentors receive training on how to respond, how not to respond, and what campus services and other resources they can connect students with, those mentors are in a much better position to have a positive impact on student success at the most critical moments.
Sending our Peer Mentors to the FYE Conference will provide them with a training experience that will allow them to be the most successful and effective mentors. We believe their role is vital for student development and academic success of all first-year OSUIT students.
Gifts to this project through the OSU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, are tax deductible as allowed by law.
If you have questions about your gift, please contact the OSU Foundation at 800.622.4678.
$25 can cover the dinner for one night during the conference for a Peer Mentor.
A $29 donation can cover one day of parking our van at the conference venue.
34 percent of college freshmen feel "overwhelmed" and end up withdrawing from school. Our Peer Mentors can be trained to help freshmen cope with their new commitments.
Nearly 60 percent of first-year college students discover that despite being accepted into college, they must take remedial classes in order to catch up. Our Peer Mentors will be able to tutor students through their remedial coursework.
A $250 donation can pay for a double occupancy room for one night at the conference hotel. This would be the room for 2 Peer Mentors.
A $325 donation will cover the conference registration for one Peer Mentor.
Our Peer Mentors will travel 493 miles to San Antonio, TX from Okmulgee, OK for the FYE Conference.