March 2024 Monthly Digest

Welcome to the inaugural Mentor Collective Monthly Digest! We are excited to offer you a monthly newsletter that includes information on best practices and upcoming events to help meet your mentorship goals.

💡 Tips and Tricks

• Recruitment! Recruitment! Recruitment! It’s time to start thinking about your next program launch. Consider actionable steps your institution can take to make recruitment successful, as well as strategies to boost your recruitment efforts if you’re looking to engage more participants.
• Curious about what messages your participants receive? Read how Mentor Collective’s standard recruitment messaging engages prospective participants.

📚 Education Opportunities

• Hear directly from your peers! Join us on March 28 at 1:00 PM ET to listen to your peers share their top strategies for boosting participant recruitment. Save your spot today!
• The spotlight is on Indiana University: Listen to Vice Provost of Enrollment Management, Dr. David B. Johnson, discuss how their strategic partnership with Mentor Collective led to a boost in student retention rate.
• If you missed last month’s webinar on leveraging student employees to drive mentorship program engagement, check it out here or dive into the highlights below:
  • Incentivize participation by using student employees
  • Build a paid mentorship program at scale
  • Use social media and on-campus events to recruit
  • Leverage paid graduate students

🤝 Upcoming Community Events

• Are you serving transfer students through mentorship? Meet other transfer-focused mentorship champions for a meet-up about increasing sense of belonging and retention. Join the convo on April 4 at 1:00 PM ET by registering here!
• Stop by our table in Louisville, KY at this year’s American Association of Community Colleges Conference, April 5-9.
• Connect with other Mentor Collective online partners March 26-29 at the UPCEA conference in Boston, MA.

✅ To-Do’s

• Ensure participants feel a sense of closure as your program ends. Check out our ready-to-use messaging templates.
• Don’t forget to leverage your assessment data! Chat with your Partner Success Manager about ways to use end-of-program assessment results.
• Prepare for new recruitment, and ensure students remain connected to your institution over the summer. Consider hosting an end-of-program celebration, or recruiting at your upcoming orientation events.
• What recruitment assets work well for your institution? Support mentorship for all by sharing recruitment materials with your Partner Success Manager - and receive a Starbucks gift card as a thank you!

Finally, listen to Synthia Salam explain why she answered the call to be a peer mentor with University of Central Florida’s PeerKnights Mentoring program. Mentorship matters!