Strong mentorship thrives when it's guided by insight. This month, we're highlighting how data can power your mentorship program—from surfacing meaningful trends to identifying students who need support most. Whether it's through Institution Provided Data (IPD), survey feedback, or impact analyses, data helps you design smarter programs, make informed decisions, and create institution-wide real impact.
Institution Provided Data
Institution Provided Data, or IPD, is additional, custom mentee and mentor profile data. This data allows you to view, track, and analyze impact for specific segments of participants that are important to your program and institution. Common types of IPD include:
- Degree Program / Major
- Assigned Advisor
- Scholarship Recipient Status
- First Gen Status
- Transfer Status
- Club Membership
Watch our webinar (<25-mins) to explore how IPD, in tandem with your mentorship program data, can strengthen overall student success or career readiness strategy. 
Institution-Provided Data (IPD) empowers you to turn your mentorship program into a strategic, data-informed initiative. By adding custom mentor and mentee profile data to your Partner Dashboard, beyond standard directory info or matching surveys, you gain the ability to filter, analyze, and report on key student segments.
This enables you to:
- Support institutional priorities like accreditation, equity, and student success
- Strengthen mentorship outcomes through targeted support for high-need or high-impact populations
- Drive cross-campus insights by integrating mentorship into broader institutional effectiveness efforts
- Make data-backed decisions using predictive analyses and detailed segmentation
| Check out potential use cases and real examples from your peers in this article! |
In short, IPD helps you not only run a mentorship program—but prove its impact and align it with what matters most at your institution. Learn more about IPD in our Partner Knowledge Center article, this webinar, or by chatting with your Partner Success Manager. Questions about FERPA compliance? Read our compliance FAQ. |
Using Microsurveys to Enhance Your Launch
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Have you used microsurveys to get targeted information from your participants? Consider these ways a microsurvey could be helpful as you gear up launch:
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Click here for our Partner Knowledge Center article on microsurveys—including a demo video, library of examples of microsurveys in action, and timing and technical details. Don't miss our webinar for info on how to design, deploy, and leverage microsurveys to inform program decisions, boost engagement, and elevate resources at your institution. |
Start Smart: Understand Participant Needs
 Don't miss our upcoming Ask The Expert small-group session, where we'll chat one-on-one with our in-house data expert about how you can leverage your start of program survey to inform the overall strategy of both your mentorship initiative and your organization's student success or career-readiness goals. Register here!
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Start-of-program surveys help you understand your participants before their mentoring begins. These short assessments capture key insights about students’ goals, confidence, and support needs—giving you a baseline to measure impact and tailor support throughout the program. As your program kicks-off, you can review assessment survey responses on your Partner Dashboard. Navigate to the “Dashboard” page under the “Assessment” tab. You can also export assessment data on your “Exports” page. Want to check out the content of a start of program assessment survey? Check out this article for content by program type, technical details, timing, and more. |
Building a Culture of Mentorship Through Data
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Having a data-informed mentorship initiative is one way to build a culture of mentorship across your institution. Data about mentorship needs to be easily available, used, and shared at your institution. This includes mentorship participation data, testimonials, and impact analyses. Collecting this kind of data allows an impact-first mindsight when building out your overall mentorship strategy, ensures action is taken based on key insights, and encourages sharing of these insights with key stakeholders who have the ability to grow your program across your institution. These stakeholders might include colleagues interested in understanding the student experience, leaders responsible for funding your program, deans from other departments considering their own mentorship initiatives, or even participants you are looking to recruit.
 Click here to see how University of Wisconsin-Green Bay used three years of mentorship data to improve student outcomes and expand their program through a campus-wide impact report: View the report.
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Dive deeper: Read the full white paper on how institutions can build a sustainable culture of mentorship across campus. |
Analyze the impact of mentorship on key student success and career readiness outcomes like sense of belonging, term-to-term persistence, and academic progress. Our 
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ICYMI: June Webinars
Hear Mentor Collective, Handshake, and the Business-Higher Education Forum discuss how to harness mentorship as a driver of intern satisfaction, performance, and post-internship success.
Upcoming Events
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Career Readiness Begins Here: How Mentorship Builds the Skills that Matter Drawing on Dr. James Winfield's insights into student career development, we'll share how to equip your institution with the insights and tools to bridge the gap between degree and career. |
Ask The Expert: Start of Program Assessment Survey This session will explore how you can leverage your start of program survey to inform the strategy of both your mentorship initiative and your organization's overall goals. |
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