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Liberal Studies

2023

Higher education—honors programs & colleges; group work in education; student leadership development; first-year experience; University of Nebraska–Lincoln (NE)—Honors Program

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Empowering Student Leadership Amid Transition: Student-Centered Revision Of First-Year Honors Peer Mentoring, Jacob R. Schlange, Tamy Burnett Jan 2023

Empowering Student Leadership Amid Transition: Student-Centered Revision Of First-Year Honors Peer Mentoring, Jacob R. Schlange, Tamy Burnett

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Precipitated by a surge in enrollment, authors describe the three-phase revision (2017–2021) of a first-year peer mentoring program in honors. Grounded in student input and leadership, large-scale programmatic changes involve curriculum expansion, student leadership development, and co-curricular experiential support. Program objectives, implementation, and outcomes are described.