Developing effective student peer mentoring programs: a practitioner's guide to program design, delivery, evaluation and training

This is a comprehensive resource for creating, refining and sustaining effective student peer mentoring programs. While providing a blueprint for successfully designing programs for a wide range of audiences - from freshmen to doctoral students - it also offers specific guidance on developing programs targeting three large groups of under-served students: first-generation students, international students and student veterans. This book is primarily intended as a resource for student affairs professionals and program coordinators who are developing new peer-mentoring programs or considering refining existing ones. It may also serve as a text in courses designed to train future peer mentors and leaders.

Foreword / Nora Domínguez -- What is peer mentoring, and how is it used higher education? -- How can peer mentoring help address the crisis of college students not completing their degrees? -- What are the important adjustment issues college students must address to persist at college and complete their degrees? -- How can peer mentoring help college students address specific adjustment issues and have a positive impact on persistence and degree completion? -- Retention through an academic mentoring program / Vynessa Ortiz and Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State University -- What design issues must you consider in setting up a peer mentoring program? -- Students first mentoring program / Peter J. Collier, Portland State University -- How will you deliver mentoring support and services? -- Transfer connections program / Phil Larsen, Lydia Middleton, and Adam Baker, University of Michigan -- What content materials will you share with mentees? -- VETS to VETS program / Elizabeth Erickson, Sacramento State University -- How are you going to train your peer mentors? -- The project for New Mexico graduates of color and integrity in graduate training / William L. Gannon, Stephanie Sanchez, an…