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On May 19, 2022, excitement and anticipation reverberated through LaGuardia’s M401A; it’s not every day that Student Success Mentors (SSMs) are invited to sit down…
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Research suggests a strong connection between a student’s sense of belonging to their campus and classes and higher academic achievement (for references, see below). In…
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Since its inception in January 2015, the Peer Advisor Academy has helped recruit and train LaGuardia Community College students for department-based advising roles throughout the…
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Soon after LaGuardia’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) was founded in the year 2000, we developed our first student mentoring program.* Over the years,…
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This past spring of 2019 was the launch of the Tech Scholars Program (TSP); a series of workshops for LaGuardia students interested in the field…
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On April 4th, 2018 the Student Success Mentor (SSM) Program, a peer mentoring program within the LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning, held a 3-Day…
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New students at LaGuardia need a lot of support to make it through the first semester. Services available across the campus are not enough thus…