African-American and Latinx enrollment in higher education has increased dramatically in recent years at many predominantly White institutions. However, the graduation rates of these students are substantially lower than the general student population at many of these institutions. This study introduces “Success Central,” an innovative peer coaching initiative offered at a mid-size, comprehensive regional institution. Instead of post-graduate professionals employed as success coaches, which is the typical practice, upper-class undergraduate students were selected and trained in an innovative life coaching intervention designed to address the root causes of student attrition as established in the literature examining the academic and non-academic factors that contribute to early departure. Students met regularly with assigned peer coaches who supported them to address their challenges and accomplishment of their desired goals. The results of this program exceeded the objective of equal persistence rates between the underrepresented students of color who had received peer-coaching and their majority counterparts. Additionally, students who experienced this intervention reported an improvement in their perception of their college experiences and academic skills.

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成功中心：使用同伴成功辅导干预解决非裔美国人和拉丁裔大学生的坚持

近年来，在许多以白人为主的机构中，非裔美国人和拉丁裔的高等教育入学率急剧增加。然而，这些学生的毕业率大大低于许多这些机构的一般学生人数。本研究介绍了“成功中心”，这是一项由中等规模的综合性区域机构提供的创新同伴辅导计划。不同于典型的做法是聘请研究生专业人士担任成功教练，而是选择高年级本科生并接受创新的生活教练干预培训，该干预旨在解决学生流失的根本原因，正如研究学术和导致提前离校的非学术因素。学生定期与指定的同伴教练会面，这些教练支持他们应对挑战并实现预期目标。该计划的结果超出了接受同伴指导的少数有色人种学生与其大多数同行之间同等坚持率的目标。此外，经历过这种干预的学生报告说，他们对大学经历和学术技能的看法有所改善。