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Peer Supports

Your peers, both in your program and outside, are important to your experience and learning. Peers can help when you have questions about a class, how to navigate resources on campus and how to get involved. By listening to their experiences you can gain insights that can make your transition to Seneca a seamless one.

There are also academic peer supports available, as well as the SMILE (Student Mentoring in Life and Education) program, which offers pre-arrival help for first-term international students and a term-based peer mentorship program (note after one term, you can become a mentor to a peer at Seneca). These programs will match lower-year students to upper-year students and task upper-year students with sharing their experience, thoughts and knowledge with the first-term student. This is mutually beneficial for both students involved because:

• the upper-year student gains valuable mentoring, teaching and work experience
• the first-term student gains real-world insight from a peer who appreciates their needs and challenges

Read this Forbes’ article, The Power of Peers in Higher Education, which discusses the importance of peers to your higher education experience.

Please see Seneca’s Peer Support website for more information.