MACPE | Maine Association for Collegiate Peer Educators

The Maine Association for Collegiate Peer Educators (MACPE) is a professional and scholarly network that connects college students in Maine who are engaged in a wide array of peer education roles.

MACPE started in the spring of 2025 with a simple goal: to create opportunities for connection among peer educators in Maine. In October 2025, MACPE hosted its first summit at Bates College, welcoming attendees from Bowdoin College, Colby College, the University of New England, Central Maine Community College, the University of Maine at Augusta, and the University of Maine at Farmington.

Upcoming Events: There are no upcoming events currently scheduled; however, conversations are ongoing to select a host institution and identify a date for the 2026 MACPE Summit. Stay tuned for updates about the next summit and other events.

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Vision

To foster a community of practice and scholarship in which collegiate peer educators can learn, connect, collaborate, and innovate.

Goals

  1. Maintain an open and accessible network of collegiate peer educators and professional support staff in Maine.
  2. Facilitate opportunities to share scholarship, develop as peer education practitioners, and form new relationships with colleagues across institutions.
  3. Celebrate the work of student and professional colleagues working in peer education and academic support.
  4. Build connections between learning center communities to foster new opportunities for professional development and advancement.

We are excited to share more information about the 2026 MACPE Summit sometime in the Spring of 2026. At this time, we have not finalized a host, identified a date, or selected a theme for the next summit.

If your institution is interested in hosting, or if you have ideas/requests for the next summit, please write to SASC@bates.edu and use the subject line “MACPE 2026”.

Where: The 2025 MACPE Summit was held in Lewiston, Maine, at Bates College.

Theme: The theme for the inaugural summit was Finding Connections, those connections being social, professional, and pedagogical.

Itinerary: The summit featured four 50-minute session blocks, three of which were concurrent sessions and one of which was a featured panel presentation facilitated by a team from the University of Maine at Farmington. Explore the full 2025 MACPE Summit Itinerary for detailed session descriptions.