Honors Peer Mentors are current honors students who work on first-year learning community programs. The peer mentor strives to create a sense of belonging for first-year students, support them in their transition to college, and help the student lay a foundation for a successful liberal arts and sciences education at the University of Utah. Peer mentors work closely with staff and faculty from the Honors College and University community to accomplish the program’s goals. Any current Honors student who has completed their first-year as an undergraduate student is eligible to apply for a position.
Benefits:
- Earn a $3000 stipend
- Interact with and support the rising class of Honors students
- Work closely alongside and develop relationships with staff, faculty, and other university personnel
- Develop your community-building, collaborative, and leadership skills
Eligibility:
- Be a currently-enrolled Honors student actively pursuing an Honors degree
- Commit between 5-10 hours weekly during Fall and Spring semesters
- Complete the provided training before the beginning of Fall semesters
- Required multi-day orientation session prior to Fall semester 2022
You get paid to advocate for and organize programming around what you need for your thesis - what's better than that! The Thesis Peer Facilitator positions differ in some significant ways from the Peer Mentor positions. Instead of thinking of your role here as mentoring someone through an experience you have already had, think of it as being in a position to marshal resources that you and your peers need as you move through your thesis process together. If it is organizing a database search technique workshop, or a statistics refresher session, or a writing group; you will work closely with the Thesis Mentoring Program director Virginia Solomon, and other program managers in the Honors college, to develop programming that helps everyone in your cohort move along in their thesis projects. This programming can be instructional or self-consciously social, but the aim is not only to provide content but also to help build a sense of support, community, and belonging among your peers.
Benefits:
- Earn a $3000 stipend
- Lead students in group and face-to-face settings
- Develop academic programming so support students working on their thesis
- Build strong relationships among your peers and departmental Honors Faculty Advisor
- Support current Honors students on their way to thesis completion
Eligibility:
- Be in good academic standing in the Honors College
- Commit about 5-8 hours per week during Fall and Spring semesters
- Mandatory participation in on-line training over May-July 2022
- Required multi-day orientation session prior to Fall semester 2022
Learning Community Assistants are current honors students who assist with the day-to-day functioning of learning community programs. Students in this position support learning community staff work closely with Honors Staff to ensure the proper, timely, and efficient functioning of all learning community programs. Learning Community Assistants will be working with a variety of tasks and modalities, gaining experience in a wide of administrative and educational technologies and practices. Any current Honors student who has completed their first-year as an undergraduate student is eligible to apply for a position.
- Earn a $3000 stipend.
- Work closely alongside and develop relationships with Honors staff.
- Develop skills and capacity for administrative work in higher education.
- Commit between 5-10 hours weekly during Fall and Spring semesters.
If you’re interested in applying for any or all of these positions, you can access the application here or reach out to l.hammons@honors.utah.edu for more information.