The Mentor Experience: Undergraduate Near-Peer Mentor Outcomes Across Two Institutions

This presentation focuses on the early results of a cross-institutional study considering the impact serving as a mentor has on upper-level undergraduate students. Using a focus group methodology, students in different programs at different universities were interviewed with the goal of identifying common outcomes associated with serving in a near-peer mentoring capacity. While differences in results can be attributed to programmatic variations, similarities are expected to be suggestive of broader commonalities that could be generalizable to multiple programs and universities. The mentoring programs of each university will be discussed as well as combined results and the direction of future work