Become a Peer-Mentor

• Serve as a guide and a mentor for one year to incoming students
• Check-in with mentees according to the program specification
• Connect students to campus resources and personnel
• Assist students navigate academic and career interest
• Build relationship with a mentee
• Assist mentee build a community of support at BC

Characteristics of a peer-mentor:

• Supportive: Supports the needs and aspirations of the mentee.
• Patient: A mentor is patient and is willing to spend time performing mentoring responsibilities.
• Respected: A mentor is someone who has earned the respect of his/her peers and is someone that others can look to as a positive role model.
• A teacher: a mentor may need to teach the mentee skills and knowledge required for a task or a goal to be perform successfully.
• A Guide: a mentor serves as a guide for the mentee, points them in the right direction. (Finds Resources)
• A “Counselor” Establish a trusting relationship, keeps personal information confidential, listen carefully to the mentee and encourages the mentee to develop problem solving skills.
• A motivator: Provides continued motivation
• Advisor: “If you don’t know where you are going, you won’t know how to get there”
• Referral Agent: Looks back to the goals and expectations of the mentee and refers the mentee to appropriate organizations, offices where he/she may get help etc.

Qualifications to be a peer-mentor:

• Be a current registered Bellevue College Student
• Have completed 45 credits or more
• Have a GPA of 2.5 or higher
• Available to work up to 6 hrs. per week
• Able to commit to serve for one academic year (3 quarters)
• Able to mentor up to 2 mentees per quarter