Congratulations to
Kylie Walter
Education
Inclusive Elementary and Special Education
Honors Thesis Faculty Advisor: Christine Ashby
Thesis Title:
And They Were Roommates: Navigating Inclusive Mentorship in Higher Education
This project, presented as a written paper and film, aims to provide counsel to the questions, emotions, challenges, and successes that are found when mentors and mentees with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities work to foster symbiotic relationships on a college campus. The film follows an inclusive roommate pair, a matriculated junior majoring in Education and a non-matriculated freshman studying Studio Arts. Their conflicts, social life, efforts to support independent living, and self reflections are candidly captured on camera, contextualized by interviews with eleven of their peers.
Special thanks to Olivia Baist for making this project possible.
Links to Project Materials:
https://files.emailmeform.com/742180/a8Ox79br/WalterK%20HonorsThesis2020.pdf