CofC Center for Excellence in Peer Education

Let's welcome Chelsea Jacobs, the new Associate Director for the Center for Excellence in Peer Education. Chelsea earned her bachelor of arts degree in Communication in 2020 and is excited for joinning our CEPE office and working woth Peer Educators. Welcome to the team Chelsea.

Come celebrate another successful year for the First Year Experience Program! Let us thank you for your hard work and dedication with some food and good company.
We look forward to enjoying a little lunch with you all in the New Students Program courtyard on Reading Day – 11:30-1:00pm.

Use the information below for a chance to win an extra commencement tickets.

You are not alone in attempting to balance a chaotic schedule, use these tips to help you navigate your time.

Hope you all are having a great Thanksgiving weekend with family and friends.

FYE Peer Facilitators and Professors attended a poetry reading by Marjory Wentworth at the Aiken-Rhett House Museum, Charleston, SC.

We appreciate all faculty and staff who have served in the US military and all the sacrifices you have made over the years. We salute you all!!!

Happy Halloween cougars.

Get your Flu shot today if u can, In Front of Student Health Services from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Join us for The College Read event on October 24 @7:00 pm at the Sottile Theater. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Get Focused With President Hsu's Midterms Playlist With midterm exams for the fall 2022 semester on the horizon, College of Charleston President Andrew T. Hsu on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, shared a playlist to give students a little inspiration: Dear Students, As we reach the halfway point of the semester, I wanted to share a mini, 10-song playlist wi...

CEPE office is closed tomorrow and Friday due to sever weather. Stay safe everyone

Join us for coffee and muffins in the Commuter Lounge this Thursday, Sept 15 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am.

The Academic Experience celebrated the retirement of Page Keller, Director of the Center for Excellence in Peer Education. During the ceremony, it was announced that the Page Keller Peer Facilitator Award has been created in honor of her 25 years of service to Peer Education.

The First Year Experience Peer Educators engaging in Fall 2022 training on Friday. They are excited to work with freshmen and faculty this semester. It is good to have you all back and in-person.

We were thrilled to continue our partnership with the Academic Magnet High School this weekend. Our fabulous Peer Facilitators, Ka’Nya and Kaitlynn trained the AMHS first-year mentors!
🐾 Thanks to Maddy from admissions for telling the group about CofC.
🐾 Thanks to the fabulous duo Kaitlynn and Ka’Nya for being outstanding facilitator!
🐾 Good luck to the AMHS mentors!

The Center for Academic Performance and Persistence is looking to hire 2 CAPP Mentors. Interested students are requested to send their resume to [email protected]

The Center for Academic Performance and Persistence is looking to recruit 2 CAPP Mentors in our office. This is a great opportunity for students to build their resume, get public speaking opportunities, and providing support to students that want to be academically successful! Please fill out the application below and send your resume to [email protected].

https://forms.gle/UodGTboEbpPa1VAG6

Addlestone Library is offering services from printing & copying, to research assistance this summer. For more information⬇️
https://bit.ly/3mOsMo1

Congratulations to Ghadir Abuein, our Office Manager, who was just awarded the runner-up award for the Temporary Employee of the Year. In two short years, Ghadir has proven herself an asset to our Academic Experience community. She is now office manager for six offices within our division, and we couldn’t do any of the work we do without her! Thank you, Ghadir, for all you do!

Faculty, Staff Invited to Join the Cougar Fit Summer Challenge Remember the days when challenges meant something fun – not something to overcome? The older we get, the more overwhelming our challenges can seem. But the Cougar Fit Summer 2022 Challenge changes all that – at least when it comes to our physical fitness and health! The Cougar Fit Summer 2022 Ch...

New Online Platform Enhances Parent, Family Experience at CofC Everyone wants to see students at the College of Charleston succeed – but no one more so than parents and families. That’s why the Office of New Student Programs has launched the CofC Parent & Family Experience, an online resource powered by CampusESP designed to give parents

Do you have students that would like some experience in providing mental health support for others? Are they excellent listeners? Do they have a strong sense of empathy for others? Then we are looking for them to join Students 4 Support (S4S) for the Fall 2022-Spring 2023 semester. S4S is recruiting now through 5/31/22. Students can apply on our sharepoint site by filling out the google form. Students can also be directed to 's instagram page.

The First Year Experience and the Center for Excellence in Peer Education celebrated today at our End-of-Year PF Banquet. Thanks to our Peer Facilitators for all their hard work and dedication.

Join us for a Cougar Countdown event in the Lightsey Basement! April 27 and 29 from 7:30 am until coffee is gone.

Cougar Countdown Offers Study Breaks, Support During Exams Above: Students enjoy some mac and cheese at a Cougar Countdown event during the fall 2021 semester. Final exams are synonymous with long, exhausting nights of studying on most college campuses. But at the College of Charleston, students have plenty of opportunities to relax and re-center themselves...

Happy Easter everyone.

Big thanks for all our student employees for all the hard work you do. Happy National Student Employment Week.

Get to know FYE peer facilitator Team Leader Coralys Rio Santiago.

Get to know FYE Peer Facilitator Jaquayla Hodges.

College Named a Bronze-Level Military Friendly School The College of Charleston has earned the 2022–23 Military Friendly® School designation. Institutions earning the Military Friendly School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2022–23 survey...

Get to know FYE peer facilitator Hailey Keith.

Join the Office of Student Wellness & Well-being and the Center of Excellence in Peer Education for a Candle making event! Tomorrow at 11:00 to 1:00 pm

Make a difference, become a REACH Program Mentor! Apply here: https://forms.office.com/r/aw9EcqevpG

Get to know FYE peer facilitator team leader Winer Hein.

Join CofC Campus Housing for a virtual presentation and Q&A on March 31 at 4 p.m. Learn how to use our roommate search tool and get advice on finding your best roommate. Register today ➡️ https://sforce.co/3qsLoMN

College to Adopt Voluntary-Only Face Mask Policy The following message regarding the College of Charleston's updated face mask policy was shared with the campus community on Thursday, March 17, 2022: Dear Campus Community, With COVID-19 cases continuing to decline across our region, and Charleston County now rated as a low-risk community by the Ce...

Summer, Fall Course Registration Made Easy With MyPortal With registration just around the corner, College of Charleston students will have one of their first opportunities to see the benefits of using MyPortal. Students can simply go to myportal.cofc.edu and click on the Registration Tools tile when it's ti...