Mary Braden Murphy
  • Computer and Digital Forensics
  • Class of 2017
  • Blythewood, SC

Mary Braden Murphy Hired as Champlain College Peer Advisor

2014 Jun 3

Mary Braden Murphy of Blythewood, SC has been hired as a Peer Advisor at Champlain College for the 2014-2015 school year. Peer Advisors (PA's) are assigned a group of first-year students whom they help navigate through their first year requirements. PA's are also there as a friend and resource to their advisees. They 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 PA's job is to facilitate or support LEAD events. This includes running simulations on campus, facilitating discussions on controversial topics, holding dinners to listen to student feedback on the LEAD program and administering some of the financial workshops. All PA's are involved in running large LEAD initiatives such as the LEAD piece of orientation, Sophomore Symposium and the Game of Life.

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