- Regularly engage first-years in your group throughout the year, both individually and through group check-ins, and be responsive when they reach out to you.
- Advise first-years on issues related to adjusting to college life and connect them to appropriate resources on campus. Help foster positive engagement among the first-years.
- Assist with Blue Booking, provide peer academic advising, connect first-years to academic resources at Yale, and discuss/sign off on your first-years’ schedules.
- Work as a team to provide consistent social outlets for the first-years in your college to connect with one another.
- Understand and consistently follow safety protocols, both for emergency and non-emergency situations.
- Maintain regular contact with the rest of the team. Help ensure that the team’s work is equitably distributed.
- Collaborate with the other peer support and education programs in your college, including the Communication and Consent Educators (CCEs), Peer Liaisons, and others on programming, educational materials, and other strategies to support your first-years.
- Attend weekly meetings with your dean.
- Counselors should be thoroughly familiar with Chapters I, II, and III of the Yale College Programs of Study, which explain in detail the undergraduate curriculum and academic regulations of Yale College.