Description:
Peer mentors at the SUU Disability Resource Center (DRC) work with a student cohort of 6-8 students for the 2023-2024 academic year. Peer mentors coordinate, develop and guide/instruct DRC students with academic strategies, study skills, career and professional development services in weekly meetings that could include the following:
- Time management-creating and implementing a weekly academic and personal schedule
- Goal-setting, study strategies and exam preparedness
- Campus tours with introduction and exposure to campus resources
- Stress management and self-advocacy advice
- Resume assistance, job search guidance, interview helps, registration assistance, financial aid and scholarship applications
- Communication relating to social situations, as well as in university settings
- Academic skill development, budgeting techniques and soft skill instruction
- Training will be offered at the beginning of fall semester and peer mentoring positions are for the full academic year; fall & spring semester
Qualifications:
A qualified peer mentor should be or have the following characteristics:
- A current SUU student in the senior or junior class with a minimum 3.5 GPA
- Experience working with, or a desire to learn how to work with persons with disabilities
- Effective at time management, organization, study and social skills, as well as preparing and planning for instruction shared with mentees
- Compassionate, patient, resourceful and willing to learn alongside their student cohort, how to individualize instruction that aligns with each students' needs
- Competent in own personal professional development
- Awareness of SUU campus resources and accessing and utilizing them