Program Benefits

COSS Student Peer Mentees' Benefits: 

• Opportunities to meet and interact with staff, faculty, and fellow peers within the college  
• Become familiarized with campus resources
• Learn strategies to achieve success in academics and extracurricular activities/programs
• Develop a close relationship with a mentor
• Build self-esteem
• Looking for ways to get invovled

COSS Linked Peer Mentor's Benefits: 

• Share personal campus experience and knowledge 
• Share educational, leadership, career, and learning goals
• Fulfillment out of helping others by being supportive and resourceful
• Campus recognition of service to the individual and university
• Resume experience 
• Build self-esteem in a professional enviroment

Campus Benefits:

• Increased student retention
• Improved instructor/student rapport
• Improved communcaiton and interactions between students majoring in the College of Social Sciences
• Increased involvement in the College and University