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ERIC Number: EJ822779
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0194-3081
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Tiered Mentoring to Leverage Student Body Expertise
Jaswal, Faisal; Jaswal, Teresa McClane
New Directions for Community Colleges, n144 p55-61 Win 2008
This chapter presents an overview of a new tiered mentoring program (TMP) operating at Bellevue Community College in Washington. The program links students with peers, faculty, staff, and administrators via a tiered structure whereby first-year students are mentored by upper-level students, who in turn are mentored by professionals in the students' field of study. By serving new students and modeling the behavior it takes to be an academically successful student, the TMP student mentors develop leadership skills. TMP student mentors provide guidance, support, friendship, and connection to the college that otherwise would be nonexistent to the majority of the new student population. This program is unique in that it is provided to every new student and encourages students to help other students, thus promoting a new campus culture that fosters collegiality and collaboration.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Washington
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