SSS Peer Mentors
SSS peer mentors help new SSS students acclimate to campus during their first semester at Binghamton. They share campus resources and personal experience to help navigate common scenarios on campus such as getting a job or internship, finding volunteer opportunities, registering for courses, signing up for campus housing and more.
SSS Peer Mentor applicants must:
- Apply using the Google form emailed out to the listserv toward the end of the fall semester of each year — be ready to upload a cover letter and resume
- Successfully interview
- Complete our Mandatory Leadership Training (not for credit) during the spring semester (held on Fridays from 3:30–4:30 p.m.)
- Complete our CDCI 395 Internship Seminar (2 credits) during the fall semester
SSS Academic Success Coaching
SSS provides free tutoring & academic success coaching support for all of its program participants in a number of different subjects both by appointment and on a drop-in basis. Drop-in schedules are available at the SSS office and here.
Want to be an SSS Academic Success Coach?
We have both paid & internship positions. If you have completed the CDCI Academic Success Coach Training Internship, you can apply to be a paid coach using this .
In order to be paid, you must complete the CDCI 395 Academic Success Coach Training Internship (2 credits). The internship is only a 1 semester commitment & happens in both the fall and spring semesters.
Intern applicants must:
- Have at least 1 semester of graded coursework at Binghamton
- Have a B or better in the subject you'd like to assist with
- Have a 3.0 or better GPA
- You DO NOT need prior experience - we teach you how!
- You DO NOT need to be an expert in the subject you want to coach - you are not a professor!
- Apply using this — be ready to upload a cover letter & resume
Need more convincing? Read these intern testimonials!
If you have more questions, email Alicia Hibbard.