Ethan Farmer Receives Peer Advisor Leadership Award

2014 Jul 10

Ethan Farmer, a Computer Networking and Information Security major from East Fairfield, VT recieved the "Challenge the Process" award at the annual Peer Advisor Leadership Awards ceremony. This award exemplifies a Peer Advisor who seeks new opportunities to challenge the status quo. They innovate, experiment, and explore ways to improve workshops and the PA/mentee relationship. They are always willing to learn and grow and are eager to meet whatever challenges may confront them.

Peer Advisors (PA's) have a two part job at Champlain College, they are assigned a group of first-year students whom they help navigate through their first year LEAD requirements, provide social programs in the residence hall, and make a point to check in with their advisees on a regular basis. The second piece of the Peer Advisor's job is to facilitate or support LEAD events.

LEAD is the third dimension of Champlain's Integrated Education, the required four-year Student Life program, that addresses engaged citizenship, lifelong career management and financial sophistication.

Since 1878, Champlain College has provided career-focused education to students from its hilltop campus in Burlington, VT. Champlain's distinctive educational approach embodies the notion that true learning only occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain offers traditional undergraduate and online undergraduate courses, along with online certificate and degree programs and eight master's degree programs. Champlain offers study abroad programs at its campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 378 Colleges: 2014 Edition. Champlain was named a "Top-Up-and-Coming School" by U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges and is ranked in the top tier of 2014 Regional Colleges in the North. Atlantic Magazine described Champlain as the "Ideal College." For more information, visit www.champlain.edu