Innovating to Maximize Peer Leadership Programs as Culturally Responsive Retention Strategy

Program Type: General Interest Session

Professional Competencies: Advising and Supporting, Student Learning and Development

Target Groups: Mid-level Student Affairs Professionals, New Professionals

Institution Types: Large Universities, Mid-Size Colleges & Universities

Certification Domains: Student Learning, Development, and Success, Leadership

Abstract

Peer leadership programs can be structured as culturally responsive retention programs that provide timely access to academic resources and cultivate a sense of belonging for students from historically excluded and underserved backgrounds. They can simultaneously create meaningful student leadership development opportunities. The presenter will demonstrate how to develop, implement, and assess such peer leadership programs by introducing literature, a logic model, structural components, and assessment methods utilized for Amig@s, a peer leadership program tailored for first-generation Latinx students.

Presenters

• Yashwant Prakash Vyas
  Director, Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom
  University of New Hampshire-Main Campus