Examining Collaboration in Faculty and Student Partnerships of a Community College Pilot Mentoring Program

Presenter Information

Raquel Corona, CUNY Queensborough Community College
Madiha Shameem, CUNY Queensborough Community College

Publication Date

2021

Abstract

This essay presents a study of a pilot mentoring program at a community college in the New York City area that was structured in alignment with Students as Partners. The faculty and peer mentors in this pilot program were partnered to work together to mentor a group of incoming freshmen exiting remediation. The study focuses on the mentor partnerships specifically. Through the analysis of end-of-semester reflection mentors composed together, we reflect on how they collaborated to mentor their students and implement a program for mentees.

Author Biography

Raquel Corona is a Lecturer at Queensborough Community College and a doctoral candidate at St. John’s University. She has worked previously in writing across the curriculum and her dissertation is a rhetorical exploration of how transnationalism affects the dissemination and circulation of stories about the Latinx female body and sex.

Madiha Shameem is a Lecturer at Queensborough Community College (QCC) and has been a part of QCC since 2009. She teaches various English courses as well as developmental reading and writing courses. She has completed her Master’s degree in English Literature and will begin a doctoral degree program in Literacy with a concentration in TESOL in 2021.

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