Creating a Peer Advising / Mentoring
Program 101: Strategies for
Developing a Winning Hand
Lisa Fleming, M.Ed
Megumi Makino-Kanehiro, PhD
Phillip Rash, PhD
Stacy Woycheck, M.S., M.B.A
2015 NACADA Annual Conference
Las, Vegas, Nevada / October 6, 2015
Overview
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Introductions - presenter, institution and
peer program
Panel Topics –
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Program set up
Recruitment & selection
Training
Intangibles
Question & Answer
Evaluations
Megumi Makino-Kanehiro,
PhD
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Director, Manoa Advising Center @
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Advisor for 15 years
Peer advisors
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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
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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 2010
Cross-campus selection, training and placement
placed with over 18 advising units
cohort of 16/year = 100 peer advisors total trained
mainly advise incoming students, freshmen
Lisa Fleming
Virginia Commonwealth
University
Virginia Commonwealth
University
Peer Advising
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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 Programs
University 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 Maryland
College 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
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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?
(1)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
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GROUP SHARING
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QUESTION &
ANSWER
Please complete the
evaluation.
● Concurrent Session
#C159
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Contact us!
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Lisa Fleming – [email protected]
–Megumi Makino-Kanehiro –
[email protected]
Rash – [email protected]
●Stacy Woycheck - [email protected]
●Phil
Peer Advising & Mentoring Commission