Creating a Peer Advising / Mentoring Program 101:

Strategies for Developing a Winning Hand

Lisa Fleming, M.Ed

Megumi Makino-Kanehiro, PhDPhillip Rash, PhD

Stacy Woycheck, M.S., M.B.A

2015 NACADA Annual ConferenceLas, Vegas, Nevada / October 6,

2015

Overview

● Introductions - presenter, institution and peer program

● Panel Topics – – Program set up– Recruitment & selection– Training– Intangibles

● Question & Answer● Evaluations

Megumi Makino-Kanehiro, PhD

● Director, Manoa Advising Center @ University of Hawaii at Manoa

● Advisor for 15 years● Peer advisors

– Founder / co-supervisor of cross-campus peer advising program

– Unit supervisor● Current Peer Advising & Mentoring

Commission Chair

University of Hawaii at Manoa

University of Hawaii -Manoa

● Established in 1907● Flagship campus of UH system● Land, Sea & Space Grant Institution● 14,126 undergrads

/ 5381 graduates● Offer over 90+

majors

Manoa Peer Advisor Program

2015 - 6th COHORT

6th year - started in 2010Cross-campus selection, training and placement

placed with over 18 advising unitscohort of 16/year = 100 peer advisors total trainedmainly advise incoming students, freshmen

Lisa Fleming

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Peer Advising ● Colleges of Humanities & Sciences

Liberal Studies for Early & Elementary Education; 600 undergraduate majors

–12 LSEE peer advisors (includes 3-4 lead peer advisors)

–Started in 2012–Advise within

undergraduate education major

Phillip Rash

● Director, First-Year Mentoring at Brigham Young University

● Associate Clinical Professor and Licensed Psychologist● Former Academic Advisor and retains significant

involvement with the university’s advisement community● Came to the world of peer mentoring by appointment and

stay because I believe in it and love it!

Brigham Young University – Provo

Brigham Young University – Provo

● Private religious university- established in 1875

● 30,411 students - 27,557 undergraduate

● 5,000 + new students came for fall semester 2015

● 180 majors, 62 Masters programs, 26 Doctoral programs

● 70 percent of undergraduate students speak a second language

● Princeton Review Ranked BYU #1 “Stone Cold Sober” university for 18 years running

First Year Mentoring

● BYU provides all undergraduate students with a peer mentor

● Peer mentors contact students within 2 weeks of of admission

● Students have access to a peer mentor for their entire first year at the university

● Once students are on campus, mentors are assigned based upon registration in a “mentored course”

● We employ 90-100 peer mentors

Stacy Woycheck

● Director, New Student ProgramsUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD

● College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

● Manage Peer Mentoring Program, favorite part of the job, celebrating 10th year!

● Advising for 17 years (time flies!)

● Past, Peer Advising and Mentoring Commission Chair

University of MarylandCollege Park, Maryland

● Flagship campus, University of Maryland system

● Founded 1856, Maryland Agriculture College

● 27,056 Undergraduate Students

● 90 majors, 10 Colleges

● 114 countries represented

● 1200 New CMNS Students

Peer Mentors

● Program founded 2003● 20 Peer Mentors● Mentors hold office hours, create 4 year plans● Front line customer service in the Student

Services office.● Assist with new student orientations● Co-teach UNIV100

PROGRAM SET-UP

PROGRAM SET-UP

(1) What is your mission statement?

(2) What goals do you have for your program?

SW & LF

PROGRAM SET-UP

What parameters have you set? (What student

population will they work with?)

ALL

PROGRAM SET-UP

How do you compensate & reward your peer advisors /

leaders / mentors?

MMK & LF

PROGRAM SET-UP

(1)How many hours will they work?

(2)What tasks are they assigned?

ALL

RECRUITMENT & SELECTION

RECRUITMENT & SELECTION

(1)How do you recruit peer advisors / leaders / mentors?(2)How do you select them?

MMK & PR

TRAINING

TRAINING

(1)How often do you train?(2)What topics do you cover?

(3)How is your training set up?

LF & SW

INTANGIBLES

INTANGIBLES(1)How do you motivate your

peer advisors / mentors?(2)How do you combat fear &

skepticism by colleagues?(3)How do you increase

credibility? PR & SW

ETC., ETC.

ETC., ETC.

What assessment do you do?

LF

ETC., ETC.

How do you market & promote the program?

SW

PEER ADVISING & MENTORING BUSINESS COMMISSION MEETING

●Date: Wednesday, October 7

Time: 9:15-10:15

Location: Anzio

● GROUP SHARING

● QUESTION & ANSWER

● Please complete the evaluation.

●Concurrent Session

#C159

Contact us!● Lisa Fleming – lmfleming@vcu.edu

–Megumi Makino-Kanehiro – makino@hawaii.edu

●Phil Rash – philrash@byu.edu

●Stacy Woycheck - woycheck@umd.edu

Peer Advising & Mentoring Commission