Please view the posters presented at the 19th Annual City Tech Faculty and Student Research Poster Session below. You can click on each poster to enlarge it and view the PDF version under the poster abstract.
We thank all presenters for sharing their innovative and informative research with the City Tech community and beyond!
30-Reflective Narratives of Online Peer Mentoring During Pandemic Times
Engaging students and building connections during their first-year college transition is key to persistence and a sense of belonging (Diaz et al, 2021; Goodlad et al., 2019). Peer-mentoring can be instrumental in this process (Diaz et al., forthcoming; Plaskett, et al., 2018; Phinney et al., 2011). Since the start of the pandemic, however, the higher education landscape has changed, and so has peer-mentoring. Learning has moved primarily online. Enrollment has fallen sharply, particularly at a minority-serving public institution (NSC, 2020). The pandemic has also exacerbated pre-existing challenges for many first-year students at public institutions, and new ones emerged related to the online college experience (Diaz et al, forthcoming). Taken together, these factors impacted our approach to engaging and connecting with students. This poster presentation will share reflexive narratives from our experiences in the online peer-mentoring of first-year students at City Tech during pandemic times. We present both challenges and opportunities for future directions in online peer-mentoring. View or download a PDF version of this poster.
