Mentor Collective is the leading provider of impact-driven mentoring programs, partnering with over 180 higher education institutions to provide all students with relevant, trained peer, professional, or alumni mentors. They have created over 250,000 mentorships since their inception in 2015, with their programs resulting in reduced melt rates and increased retention. Mentor Collective is backed by mission-driven investors and has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 100 Best Remote-First Places to Work.

Mentor Collective

As the leading provider of impact-driven mentoring programs, we partner with 180+ higher education institutions to provide all students with a relevant, trained peer, professional, or alumni mentor. Our partner institutions have seen an average reduction in melt rates of -13.79% and an average effect on retention of +3.84%, with a total of more than 250,000 mentorships created since our inception in 2015.

Mentor Collective is the industry-leading provider of mentoring programs and voted one of BuiltIn's 100 Best Remote-First Places to Work! 

We're proud to be backed by mission-driven investors including Lumina Foundation and Resolve Growth Partners.

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50% of students don't realize they're first-generation until they reach college, and often these students have the smallest support networks to help them navigate the intricate maze that comes with higher education. Mentor Collective's student engagement model was designed with first-generation students in mind as a mechanism to bring first-generation student voices to the highest levels of leadership and create learning environments where students feel supported by their peers, faculty, and institutions. In honor of #FirstGenerationStudentCelebration day, here are some of the impactful first-gen stories we've had the privilege of learning from our partners at Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Bucknell University. #CelebrateFirstGen #bethefirst

🎤 Supporting FGLI Students with Peer Mentorship with Dr. Sachelle Ford of Duke University Webinar - https://hubs.ly/Q028dw1x0

📣 Assessing & Addressing First Generation Student Challenges with Dr. Charmaine Troy, Ph.D. of Georgia Institute of Technology - https://hubs.ly/Q028dBjH0

🎓 Bucknell University Engages First-Generation Students & Sees Increases in Academic Performance with Dr. M. Lynn Breyfogle and Dr. Karl Voss of Bucknell University - https://lnkd.in/e-Ar5-fc

Our partners at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University are the perfect example of how mentorship uplifts the college experience and accelerates positive student outcomes throughout the student journey - whether a first-year or transfer student acclimating to a new institution or a junior or senior trying to decipher their next move after graduation. NC A&T currently has six Mentor Collective programs across colleges and the university as a whole; two of which are housed within the Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics. Read some highlights about why mentorship matters for business students and how it builds on the critical community and alumni engagement of business schools.  

Thank you to Dr. Kevin James for speaking at this event last year and for being such a great champion for business student success!

From First-Year to Career: Mentorship at North Carolina A&T's Deese College https://hubs.ly/Q028bBBL0

Welcome to The Collective, Ultimate Medical Academy! 🎉 So excited to get to work and amplify your commitment to helping students succeed in healthcare careers!

Did you know Mentor Collective works with four institutions in the University of Wisconsin system? Take a look at our partners at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and specifically the work of Associate Director of Admissions for Transfer and Articulation Darren Ward. 

Since our partnership began in 2018, we've worked with Darren to match 3,000+ students with relevant peer mentors. Read his thoughts on keeping program engagement up and the effect that peer mentorship has had on first-year student retention.

https://hubs.ly/Q027X8t_0

Welcome to The Collective, South Carolina State University 🎉 We're excited to help you support your students!

Attend the "Amplify Your Student Success Ecosystem" session with Partner Development Director Eric Schueller at #CCAS2023 to learn how universities increase belonging and retention by activating their most important asset — students. Discover the power of intentional peer mentorship programs in fostering student connection, belonging, and success on campus.

By attending, you'll:
⚡️ Uncover the powerful correlation between students' sense of belonging, peer connections, and their utilization of campus resources.
⚙️ Discover effective tools and metrics for measuring students' sense of belonging.
💡 Take inspiration from real success stories at Kent State University, University of Delaware, and Bucknell University

#highereducation #peermentorship #senseofbelonging #retention #artsandsciences

Not only a platform...a partnership. When you work with Mentor Collective, you're given the ability to tell comprehensive student stories through our student voice data and assessment tools. Many institutions have used these peer-reported insights and alerts to further their student success strategies and share their institutional practices at conferences around the country.

Honored to once again have Charmaine Troy, Ph.D. share her expertise on first-generation student success at the National Symposium on Student Retention, and speak to the results of the First-Gen Jackets program at Georgia Institute of Technology. 

The Georgia Tech story is definitely worthy of a full house! If you couldn't attend the conference, take a look at a webinar we hosted with Dr. Troy last year. 

https://lnkd.in/ePc8_Rnv

Join us for an insightful webinar with University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Provost Dr. Maria Stalzer Wyant Cuzzo about how new mechanisms for enhancing #predictiveanalytics are increasing #retention. 

We’ll discuss how alerts from peers embedded within scalable peer #mentorship platforms are working cohesively with this software to add additional context to student insights while giving administrators the opportunity to react in real-time to student success barriers.

Register here and learn more about the impact of peer alerts in your student success ecosystem! 

https://hubs.ly/Q026JWxf0

During college, I remember joining several courses 2-3 weeks into the semester. I felt like I was sprinting to catch a train that had already left the station. Everyone else knew the syllabus and had already acclimated to the professor's mannerisms -- I, on the other hand, was drowning from a firehose of information. 

On the last day of National Transfer Student Week, I am reflecting on the  effects of jumping into a college experience midway through. 

Roughly 2 million students transfer colleges in America each year. My mother was one of them over 5 decades ago. In fact, she is at her 50th year college reunion in California this week.

When she transferred, there were few support structures in place -- no orientation, no specialized advising, no peer mentoring programs. She missed the train and had to sprint to catch up.

Transfer student success has certainly come a long way in the last half-century and I am grateful to have watched leaders like Alfred Herrera, Samantha McAuliffe-Raynor, and Heather Adams, Ed.D champions new paradigms in just last few years.

There is more work to be done, but I know my mother would feel infinitely more seen and supported at her alma mater today.

See below for a transfer student profile at just one campus Mentor Collective supports. 

#transferstudents #studentsuccess #highereducation

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