One Mentor or Two: An Instrumental Case Study of Strategic Collaboration and Peer Mentoring

This instrumental case study investigates the use of a team mentoring approach in a first-year seminar, which was created in response to concerns about first-year student attrition. The seminar was developed in the department of Organizational Leadership at Purdue University--West Lafayette in 2004....

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Published inJournal of the first-year experience & students in transition Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 91 - 110
Main Author Wasburn, Mara H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition 2008
Subjects
Case Studies
College Faculty
College Freshmen
Course Descriptions
Evaluation Methods
First Year Seminars
Indiana
Leadership
Mentors
Social Networks
Student Adjustment
Student Attrition
Indiana
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Summary:This instrumental case study investigates the use of a team mentoring approach in a first-year seminar, which was created in response to concerns about first-year student attrition. The seminar was developed in the department of Organizational Leadership at Purdue University--West Lafayette in 2004. The aims of the course were to familiarize students with the leadership curriculum, introduce them to the faculty teaching those courses, create a network of peers within the leadership major, and provide first-year students with upper-class mentors who could help them adjust to campus life. The differences between a one-mentor and a two-mentor design are discussed. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
ISSN:1542-3077