Mentorship Program Guide - How Does It Work?

When you partner with Mentor Collective, you gain access to relationship-centered research, expert-led services and scientifically-backed technology that makes it possible for you to achieve high-quality, large-scale mentorship on your campus. 

You will manage your Mentor Collective mentorship program through six program stages.

Program Design & Configuration

The first stage of any mentorship program is design. This includes confirming goals and outcomes, defining participant groups, identifying administrator roles and responsibilities, establishing a timeline, and configuring the program to best fit your program needs.

Program Promotion & Recruitment

While Mentor Collective's platform and automated messaging work to recruit and onboard mentors and mentees to your program, your team can identify additional channels for promotion on campus and introduce stakeholders to the benefits and values of the program.

Program Launch

As mentors and mentees begin registering for the program, complete onboarding steps, are matched, and begin connecting with one another, your team can monitor activity and adjust efforts accordingly in the Mentor Collective Partner Dashboard.

Program & Participant Management

Mentorship pairs may engage naturally or due to personalized, automated guidance in Mentor Collective's platform, but your team can help along the way. Live dashboard data can inform timely delivery of resources and interventions, such as tapping into campus support systems or sending encouraging nudges to stay connected in the campus community.

Program Evaluation

At key points in your program, your team can evaluate its efficacy. Mentor Collective's standard offering includes formative assessments that allow you to report on your mentorship community, establish student levels of satisfaction, track student subgroups, identify sense of belonging and academic self-efficacy and monitor engagement among pairs.

Program Closure & Relaunch

As the current program cycle comes to an end, reflect upon your program’s design and strategy, the program outcomes achieved, and the areas for improvement. What adjustments should be made? Work with your Mentor Collective representative to begin designing and planning for the next program cycle’s launch.