First Year Experience

Expectations

• Design, plan, and deliver strategic instruction
• Actively foster and drive students’ in-class engagement and participation
• Co-facilitate design thinking activities with PEs in class with ~20 students
• Coordinate cohort-building in the classroom
• Encourage and support PEs facilitation of outside cohort-building activities
• Plan and discuss course lesson plans with assigned PEs and support their participation in planned activities
• Mandatory participation in UM course progress surveys
• Execute the common course syllabus
• Provide constructive feedback and brainstorm alternative approaches with other IFs and PEs in meetings

Eligibility

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree (awarded or in progress)
• Must be a UM Employee who has completed their probationary period
• Supervisor/Chair approval

Demonstrated Competencies and Experience

• Comfort with ambiguity
• Demonstrated adaptability
• Employs a fail-forward, open mindset
• Willingness to work with incoming students
• Successfully plans and executes discussion-based class sessions
• Ability to collaborate with undergraduate PEs on course content
• Ability to enable and support PEs in leading group activities
• Desire to serve as a mentor to new students
• Interest in connecting with diverse student, faculty, and staff populations
• Enthusiasm for UM and the first-year experience
• Ability to commit adequate time and effort to fulfill the role (e.g., participation in required training, meetings, and preparatory activities)

Compensation

• $2,000 gross compensation for one 2-credit section of COLS 194.

Time Commitment

• Training Sessions
• Course Prep
• 4 hours/week of instruction and meetings Autumn semester
  • 80 minutes X 2 (COLS 194 course meeting times)
  • Meeting with Peer Educators
  • Instructional discussions, consultations, and training as needed
• Grading and student communication