Peer to Peer Mentoring for Students with Disabilities

Catalog description

This in person course is open to all undergraduates pursuing any major who have an interest in learning more and experiencing the importance of mentoring and diversity expansion at UNH. The primary goal is to introduce UNH undergraduates with and without intellectual disabilities to a mentoring experience. UNH students will develop a beginning understanding of the importance of expanding the diversity of the UNH campus to include students with disabilities in authentic campus life experiences including taking courses, extra-curricular activities, residential life, and on campus employment. Each mentor/mentee relationship will be individualized based on the needs of the students enrolled in the course and mentoring relationships will be matched based on the completion of individualized student directed personalized future planning.