Connections Peer Mentor 2024-2025


2024-2025 Connections Peer Mentor Application - Closed!


Connections (USU 1010) is a two-credit academic course offered to incoming students at Utah State University. This course includes faculty-designed curriculum, and experiences to ease the transition to college and help students answer three big questions about higher education. Through Connections, students make meaningful connections to resources, faculty, staff, and other students.

Each course includes a faculty member and a peer mentor, both of whom play an integral role in helping students succeed at USU.

USU Connections Peer Mentors support the instructors in teaching the course objectives, and helping students answer the following three big questions about higher education, with particular emphasis on question three:

  1. Why am I here?
  2. How do I best engage myself in becoming an educated person?
  3. How do I become a fully engaged member of the university community?

Job Description

As a Peer Mentor you will be assigned a faculty member with whom you will work closely. You will help facilitate the course curriculum and guide students through the transition to college and through their first semester. You will be required to attend and complete trainings and workshops that are specifically developed to help you accomplish your job as a Peer Mentor. You are also required to attend the USU 1010 Connections course in its entirety. Peer Mentors are held to the highest standards, and are hired and trained with departmental cultural values in mind: Inclusion, Respect, Awareness, Knowledge, Appropriateness, and Humility.

USU is committed to a learning and working environment free from discrimination, including harassment. For USU’s non-discrimination notice, see https://equity.usu.edu/non-discrimination. 

Job Qualifications
  • Completion of at least one semester at Utah State University
  • Minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA
  • Enrollment in Fall 2024 courses
  • Ability to attend all mandatory dates and trainings
  • Undergraduate student
Things You Will Gain
  • The ability to develop a professional relationship with USU faculty
  • Valuable training about campus resources, communication, mentoring, and more
  • A sense of accomplishment, and the ability to contribute to the incoming class and make a difference for individual students
  • A sense of what it means to be a 'learner' at USU
Job Details
  • Pay is $12.00 / hr
  • Peer mentors work approx. 80 hrs total during Fall 2024, about 30 hours of which is during Connections week
    • 3-5 hours per week, first 7 weeks of the semester for holding group meetups
    • 1-3 hours per week, second 7 weeks of the semester for indvidual check-ins
  • There are 75-80 positions available
  • Spring 2025 Peer Mentor positions are also available
  • More information can be found in the complete job description

 

2024-2025 Connections Peer Mentor Application - Closed!