Peer Group Leader Information

Peer Group Leader Job Description

Peer Group Leaders (PGL) serve as positive, public role models and guides whose job is to assist new students in the process of making a successful transition to the community and culture of Warren Wilson College. It is important that Peer Group Leaders have a healthy sense of personal identity, that they are accepting of diversity, able to listen carefully, hold high personal and academic standards, and are comfortable responding to students and situations in ways that are in keeping with college policies, understanding that some personal choices are limited because of the expectations of the position and the importance of being a positive role model and community member. To learn more about the job description of a PGL, please download this form.

Peer Group Leader Application

Anyone interested in becoming a PGL must apply for the position. Please download this application, complete it and submit it along with the Recommendation form by the deadline. 

Peer Group Leader Recommendations

In addition to submitting an application, all applicants must submit a PGL Recommendation form. The form is to be completed by a WWC faculty or staff member who has been a witness to the applicant's character traits implicit to the functioning of the position.  Please download this form and have it completed and submitted along with the application.

All applications for Fall 2013 are due by Friday, April 19, 2013. Submit application and recommendation forms to Lyn O'Hare, CPO 6322, lohare@warren-wilson.edu, or drop off forms in Lower Dodge House, Office 110.


First Year Seminar Instructors

Fall 2013

Abernathy, David (Social Science)
Black, Nettie (Social Science)
Boyd, Amy (Natural Science)
Coffey, David (Natural Science)
Gaughan, Warren (Fine Arts/Humanities)
Hawkins, Gary (Fine Arts/Humanities)
Jonas, Annie (Social Science)
Knight-Oakley, Martha (Social Science)
Knisley, Amy (Natural Science)
Milling, Charlie (Social Science)
Milling, Charlie (Social Science)
Moore, David (Social Science)
Phillips, Angela (Fine Arts/Humanities)
Showalter, Tom (Fine Arts/Humanities)
Wantland, Evan (Natural Science)

 2012-13 FYS Instructors and PGL's