2025-05-22 –, Track 4 (Thur)
While BIPOC students experience poorer academic outcomes than their white peers (Banks et al., 2019; Hurtado & Alvarado, 2015; Ong et al., 2013), diverse peer interactions, mentorship, and belonging have been shown to support students of color (Hussain & Jones, 2021). The PsycPEERS fellowship was developed to support BIPOC students by providing new psychology students of color mentorship and academic support from older students, community with other psychology students of color, and professional development opportunities. This fellowship design emphasized students’ existing strengths, skills, knowledge and capacities. Originally, the fellowship was designed to include 12 new student fellows, 2 peer mentors, 1 tutor, and 3 faculty who coordinated the program. While the program has provided meaningful support for some BIPOC students, it has experienced low enrollment (2-4 fellows) and retention of fellows. The goal of this hackathon is to generate 3 new ideas for enrollment and retention among first-year BIPOC students.
