The First Year Experience Peer Mentoring Program seeks to enhance our freshman first-year students’ experience by providing all interested students dynamic, focused peer-mentoring relationship in which mentor and mentee can learn and grow together. Furthermore, the Peer Mentoring Program serves to connect students to the College through a rich variety of experiences shaped by each students’ needs as addressed in their peer mentoring relationship with a peer mentor in the first year of attending the Purdue College of Pharmacy.
Required Participation from Mentors and Mentees:
- Weekly Check- In Meetings
- Monthly Group Events
Benefits for Mentees
- Develop a sense of belonging in the College community
- Increase curricular and co-curricular collaborative interactions with other students, faculty and staff and demonstrate a better understanding of differences and similarities among people
- Advance awareness of College resources and career opportunities
- Accelerated professional development from Mentors shared experiences
- Experience a higher level of satisfaction with the Purdue College of Pharmacy and show a greater rate of persistence as a result of all of the above.
Benefits for Mentors
- Cultivating leadership and communication skills
- Gain knowledge about new students’ perspectives and their development
- Build confidence to help boost your professional and personal self-worth
- Stronger community engagement opportunities
- Receive compensation, recognition and reward
Contact Us
Theresa Zea
Diversity Program Coordinator
tezea@purdue.edu
Marie Martin-Murphy
Director of Diversity Initiatives
mmartinm@purdue.edu