What a peer educator actually does
Trained students run recurring wellness workshops on sleep, stress and nutrition, staff outreach tables during high-stress weeks like finals, and offer informal one-on-one coaching for a student who wants peer-level advice rather than a clinical appointment.
Becoming one
Applications open each spring for the following academic year; selected students complete a paid summer training before taking on programming responsibilities in the fall.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
Who they are: Trained, paid student staff. What they run: Wellness workshops, tabling, one-on-one peer coaching. Apply: Each spring for the following year. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.