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Tip Tuesday - Enhancing Faculty and Staff Support for Your Peer Education Group

October 6, 2015

Faculty and staff can be some of our greatest allies. Here are several ways to keep them informed about your peer education group.

  • Host a faculty and staff social sponsored by your group to introduce the new peer educators to key faculty and staff on campus.
  • Identify classes that relate to the peer education work you do. Ask those faculty members if you can give a three-minute introduction to peer education.
  • As a group, brainstorm the names of key campus faculty and staff that you would like involved to a greater extent with your program. Be sure to collect their names, departments, campus mail addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
  • Invite three or four different faculty or staff members to one of your meetings. It is best if this invitation is made in person instead of in writing. Your advisor can help by making a follow-up phone call on the day of the meeting.
  • Make friends with staff members in catering, custodial, maintenance, and facilities management.
  • Have a staff appreciation day and find some way to recognize front desk staff, ground maintenance crews, custodial staff, food service workers, campus police, and others.
  • Send an open letter to faculty and staff explaining your mission. Introduce your advisor and provide contact information and social media links. Make this a very upbeat letter and thank them for their support.
  • Have a dinner night out and ask every member to bring a faculty or staff member along. This doesn't have to be a formal banquet. Just invite a few folks out for a casual dinner, get to know them, ask about their area of academic interest, and describe your organization to them.
  • Get to know who's who in your vice president's office and in all student affairs offices. Having positive relationships with staff members in these offices can only be beneficial to your group. Don’t forget to mention your connection to NASPA!
  • Sponsor a "don't cancel that class" program on a health issue. Offer to fill-in for faculty if they have to be away at a professional conference. Market and promote the program to faculty periodically throughout the year.
  • If your members work on campus in offices or departments, let supervisors know about your affiliation with peer education.
  • Make sure your events are publicized to the faculty and staff through personal invitations and faculty-staff newsletters.

This is part of a series of resources that peer education groups have found helpful. A PDF version can be found under ‘Resources’ in the BACCHUS Initiatives section of the website.