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The Mission of the Peer Support Program is to increase the success and retention rates of first-year Columbia College Chicago students. This program connects first-year minority and other underrepresented students with upper-class peer mentors. Peer mentors coordinate opportunities for students to become acclimated to the campus and Chicago area, as well as to develop their personal, academic, social, and cultural experiences through programming and guidance.
The Peer Support Program is a diverse community of first-year student mentees matched into family clusters lead by a junior, senior, or graduate student peer mentor. Mentees and peer mentors meet on a weekly basis every Tuesday for educational, professional, and social programming, including Tips on Tuesdays, Rips on Tuesdays, and Success Starts Now events. If you are interested in joining the Peer Support Program as a mentee, or if you are interested in serving as a peer mentor, visit our website for more information.