Inclusive Campus Life Affinity Group

This Affinity Group is designed for people who are currently involved with or interested in enabling students with ID to become full participating members of their campus communities. Affinity Group members include any college or university staff, faculty, mentors, students with ID, or researchers. The group is facilitated by Lindsay Krech, director of Campus Life and Student Supports at Vanderbilt University (Lindsay.b.krech@Vanderbilt.edu).

January 21, 2022

Topic: Peer Mentor Models: Panel Discussion 

The meeting includes three models and perspectives of peer mentoring within inclusive higher education settings at community college, private university, and public university:

• Volunteer mentor model
• Paid mentor model
• Service-learning mentor model

Presenters: 

• Amanda Warren, MS, Program Coordinator of Eagle Connections at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, FL
• Jennifer Graves, EdD, Director of Union EDGE at Union University in Jackson, TN
• Carol Britton Laws, PhD, Principal Investigator of Destination Dawgs Inclusive Postsecondary Education at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA