What is the First-Year Peer Mentoring Program?
The first year of college can be an overwhelming time for incoming students who are living in a new place, meeting new people, and adjusting to a new routine away from home. The First-Year Peer Mentoring Program is a program including all first-year students at Wartburg College. The program focuses on mentoring students wherever they are in their college experience. Every section of SEM 100 (first-year seminar) will be assigned a mentor who will attend class and interact as directed by the course instructor. Mentors are not only in the classroom but also available to meet one-on-one outside of the classroom to help students with various needs. The First-Year Peer Mentoring Program was created to help students pursue and meet their academic, personal, and professional goals.

Who will mentor me as a first-year student?
Peer Mentors are successful 2nd, 3rd, or 4th students who have been trained to assist students in a variety of ways (see below). Mentors serve as role model to first-year students in the classroom but also throughout the remainder of the academic year meeting individually with first-year students as needed.

How will I benefit from having a First-Year Mentor?
Mentoring relationships can take many different forms and the benefits vary from relationship to relationship.  Here are a things mentors can help students with:

• Transitioning to college or Wartburg specifically
• Time management skills
• Test-preparation techniques
• Vocational exploration
• Note-taking
• Self-motivation
• Goal-setting
• Financial management
• Stress reduction
• Choosing a major
• Career opportunities
• Specific Wartburg support services and resources
• Getting involved on campus
• And much more!

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