The Mentoring Connection: Peer mentoring

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Graduate school is designed to challenge and expose students to multiple perspectives. It can represent a paradigm shift for many new students acclimating to new programs departments, and communities. Achieving work-life balance, developing and maintaining relationships are stressors that can become barriers to academic success.

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