Peer Leadership in Higher Education: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 157

Jennifer R. Keup

Mar 2012 · John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

Peers have always been an important influence on students’ college experience. Peer leadership programs are not only pervasive but also offer an effective means to advance students’ adjustment, learning, development, and success. This issue covers peer leadership as an emerging high-impact practice in support of 21st Century Learning Outcomes. In it, you’ll learn:

1. The benefits of peer leader programs
2. A history of peer education
3. How to provide academic support through peer education
4. Peer leadership in the cocurriculum
5. Integrating technology into peer leader responsibilities
6. Peers in doctoral education
7. The architecture of a high-impact and sustainable program.

This is the 157th volume of thid Jossey-Bass series. Addressed to higher education decision makers on all kinds of campuses, New Directions for Higher Education provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution.

About the author

Jennifer R. Keup is the director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and also serves as an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina.