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For most students, the transition from a two-year community college to a four-year university isn't just a change in landscape; it’s a total shift in ...
The Massachusetts SUCCESS (Supporting Urgent Community College Equity through Student Services) Fund has provided a vital blueprint for closing ...
In the first two posts of this series, we made the case for engagement—and defined what it actually looks like in effective mentorship. The next ...
In our last post, we established a core idea: mentorship access alone won’t produce impact. Programs that measure success by matches or meetings ...
For years, the rallying cry across education and the workforce has been the same: access. The goal was to democratize the "hidden curriculum" by ...
The landscape of education, work, and talent is shifting faster than ever—and with it, the expectations for how organizations and learners achieve ...
There are moments when aspiration can only be realized with new architecture—when clarity of vision demands you take something down to the studs and ...
I just returned from EDUCAUSE 2025, and one message came through loud and clear: Belonging isn’t soft. It’s a signal. This became undeniable during ...
Despite growing investment in career-aligned curriculum and workforce development initiatives, a troubling reality persists: half of recent graduates ...
As the leader of product here at Mentor Collective, I’ve seen firsthand how industry insights reinforce our core belief: outcomes improve ...
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Using insights from over 500,000 mentorships, this new feature amplifies soft skills and supports workforce readiness, economic mobility, and ...
What if the greatest challenge facing the American workforce wasn't a skills gap, but a connection gap? For too long, we’ve relied on systems that ...
The education-to-employment pipeline is fundamentally broken, but we're seeing powerful results with a new approach to bridge the gap. With 40% of ...
What stops a mentorship from starting? It’s not a lack of desire — 76% of employees* say mentorship is vital to career success. The real barrier is ...
I’ve spent my career at the intersection of education, technology, and impact. Like you, I’ve watched how the rise of AI and the breaking of the ...
Let’s not wait for the bottom rung of the career ladder to vanish before we act. Recent insights from the Business-Higher Education Forum confirm ...
In an era where the boundaries between education and employment continue to blur, Mentor Collective is ushering in the next chapter of mentorship, ...
I recently had the privilege of attending SHRM 2025, the annual summit that brings together a diverse and influential group of HR leaders. Their ...
At the Knauss School of Business, we believe career preparation is most powerful when learning extends beyond the classroom. While classroom learning ...
In a recent webinar, Mentor Collective’s CEO, Erin Mayhood, and Dr. James Winfield, Associate Dean for First Year Experience, General Education, ...
As CEO of Mentor Collective, I couldn’t be more excited to announce our impact partnership with Roadtrip Nation. This isn’t just about providing new ...
It’s no surprise that internships are powerful career-launch tools. They are widely regarded as the gold standard for early career development, ...
At Mentor Collective’s latest webinar, Beyond Giving Back: A Mutually Beneficial Approach to Alumni-Powered Student Mentorship, we came together to ...
As a leader at Mentor Collective, I recently had the privilege of attending JFF Horizons, the annual summit hosted by Jobs for the Future (JFF). This ...
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At Mentor Collective, being a strong collaborator to our 180+ partners is about more than leveraging technology and data — it’s a strategic blend of ...
Recently, I attended HERDI Innovate—a dynamic gathering where community college leaders, educators, and innovators explored building talent-ready ...
At Delta College, the journey toward student success is deeply intertwined with mentorship. As a public two-year college in Michigan, Delta College ...
I recently returned from two impactful conferences—the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, a premier gathering for leaders across the global learning and ...
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are vital launchpads for social mobility, cultural empowerment, and generational impact. These ...
Mentorship has the potential to transform student success at every stage of the learning journey—propelling learners into their careers and preparing ...
Welcoming Megan Ganguly as Chief Marketing and Operations Officer to Drive Our Expansion
As we navigate a rapidly changing landscape, our mission to empower ALL individuals to reach their full potential is more critical than ever. I am ...
At Mentor Collective, we know that mentorship changes lives—and we help institutions build strong, engaged communities where both mentees and mentors ...
Mentor Collective is thrilled to support six exceptional Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) public universities—Northern ...
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Institutions recognize that career readiness is critical to student success. The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (UW-Green Bay) has taken ...
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University (NC A&T) has honed a culturally responsive lens known for uplifting the next generation. The ...
For universities nationwide, student stop-out—or withdrawal from enrollment—is a barrier that hampers students' success and keeps them from reaching ...
What does it mean to belong on campus? For some students, it will look like achieving exemplary grades in the classroom, unlocking the opportunity to ...
BOSTON, Mass. (April 16, 2024) Mentor Collective, higher education’s preferred edtech platform for peer mentorship, today announced the appointment ...
For first-year students, a sense of belonging is crucial to starting their educational journey strong, establishing ties to the university community, ...
BOSTON, Mass. (April 2, 2024) Mentor Collective, higher education’s preferred edtech platform for peer mentorship, announced today that Andrew Rosen ...
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BOSTON, Mass. (February 21, 2024) Mentor Collective, higher education’s preferred edtech platform for peer mentorship, announces two changes to ...
A proud first-generation student, Erin Mayhood's journey to CEO uplifts a critical shift in higher education and the importance of relationships amid ...
Most years, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form is released online in October. Due to several changes to make the form simpler ...
In Part 1 of this series, we compared cultivating a sense of belonging to finding your way around a friend’s new house or apartment. When someone ...
With historical underfunding, high staff turnover, and a rising culture that deprioritizes going to college, higher education leaders are facing a ...
“Make yourself at home!” We say this often to folks as they enter the space we call home, and surely have heard the same from others when we enter ...
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At Mentor Collective, we believe the secret to student and professional success is relationships. Connecting people to your network keeps it active ...
The Strada Education Foundation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Initiative has been making headlines recently after achieving ...
After creating over 200,000 relevant mentorships, here’s what we’ve learned: When mentors and mentees are given agency to choose how they're matched ...
When Congress passed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Simplification Act, it dramatically simplified the process of applying for ...
To boost student retention and student success, institutions across the country have identified decentralized data collection and siloed resources as ...
BOSTON, Mass. (Nov. 29, 2023) Mentor Collective – higher education’s preferred peer mentorship platform – and the 1890 Center of Excellence for ...
At Mentor Collective, we believe the secret to student and professional success is relationships. Connecting people to your network keeps it active ...
Online degree pathways continue to gain popularity and public favor while other areas of higher education face enrollment declines and skepticism - a ...
When you apply for a job, the hiring manager may only look at your resume for 10 seconds or less. This makes sense when you consider that they have ...
Universities and Colleges Spend Billions on Under-Used Services Universities and colleges spend billions every year on educating students — $671 ...
BOSTON, Mass. (September 5, 2023) — Mentor Collective – the leading ed-tech provider committed to driving student belonging and retention through ...
Higher education leaders are increasingly evaluated by their ability to move the needle on student success outcomes. With the enrollment cliff fast ...
Two-thirds of colleges and universities are adding new online programs in an effort to meet growing demand for online education. But only 22% of ...
We’re pleased to announce the release of a major new dashboard feature: mentee goals. The development of this feature has been a cross-organizational ...
Dr. Emmanuel Collins, Dean of the J.B. Speed School of Engineering, sees himself in the students of color at the University of Louisville. One of ...
At Mentor Collective, we believe the secret to effective networking is paying it forward. Connecting others keeps your network active and, most ...
At Mentor Collective, we believe the secret to effective networking is paying it forward. Connecting others keeps your network active and, most ...
“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt." - John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
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BOSTON, Mass. (April 10, 2023) — Mentor Collective – the leading edtech provider committed to driving student belonging and retention through ...
For Mae Jemison, the inspiration was largely fictional.
The dedicated Career Services team at St. John’s University in Queens, New York has never underestimated the power of mentorship and social capital. ...
We're excited to announce we have expanded our full student lifecycle mentoring platform to provide all admitted students with a relevant, trained ...
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout earlier this year prompted many institutions to begin making plans for in-person fall semesters. However, with COVID-19 ...
Like many institutions and Mentor Collective partners around the country, the University of Michigan-Flint (UMF) entered the post-pandemic academic ...
How can higher education leaders support students in 2020-2021? On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, Mentor Collective and Dr. Venkat Reddy, Chancellor of ...
On May 19th, Mentor Collective hosted a roundtable discussion with an esteemed panel of thought-leaders and administrators from historically Black ...
In universities across the country, administrators have identified a gap between institutional resources and how—or if—students use them. This rift ...
During our first fireside chat, we had the opportunity to gain insights from Dr. Jennifer Brown, the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs ...
How can data improve the reach and efficacy of student success programs? This question was the focus of our recent webinar with student success ...
For Onondaga Community College (OCC), student engagement equals student success. Leaders at OCC not only believe that student-to-student interaction ...
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At Mentor Collective, we believe the secret to student and professional success is relationships. Connecting people to your network keeps it active ...
Higher education in Florida is an ever-changing landscape in the sunshine state. Championing its affordability and performance-based funding model, ...
Engagement takes student success programs from helpful to indispensable. Without engaged participants, programs can’t reach the students who most ...
One of the most useful tools that Mentor Collective’s program offers in the mentoring relationship is Flags. When mentors hear something in a ...
The Surgeon General announced last March that the US is facing a Loneliness Epidemic. About 1 in 2 adults report experiencing loneliness and social ...
Student Success has come to mean a variety of different things. A favorable contender for a Jeopardy category, the term is considered an ambiguous ...
The NASPA Annual Conference is one of our favorite times of year. Something about standing in front of a room full of passionate administrators and ...
Sense of belonging is the hot topic in higher education right now.
Each year, Mentor Collective enables student success by building a culture of mentorship on campuses across the country. But that's not the only way ...
Mentor Collective has the best partners in Higher Education. At Mentor Collective, we’ve spent the past week highlighting some of our partners at ...
While we may be biased, Mentor Collective has the best partners in Higher Education. Mentor Collective partners are forward-thinking leaders and ...
Mentor Collective has the best partners in Higher Education. Mentor Collective partners are forward-thinking leaders and innovators committed to ...
This is a repost of Mentor Collective's 2022 Partner Appreciation Week Celebration Mentor Collective has the best partners in Higher Education. ...
Mentor Collective has the best partners in Higher Education. Mentor Collective partners are forward-thinking leaders and innovators committed to ...
At Mentor Collective, our mission is to make life-changing relationships a feature of every student’s college experience.
At Mentor Collective, we believe the secret to effective networking is paying it forward. Connecting others keeps your network active and, most ...
A key measurement of student success is how they navigate the path from higher ed to employment. To help cross the hurdles that may exist between ...
To mitigate declining enrollment numbers, higher education institutions are working hard to understand the challenges that lie between students’ ...
What’s the difference between a friend and a mentor? Is it possible to distinguish two separate lanes for each of these important roles within a ...
Peer mentorship is a powerful tool in today's higher education landscape. More in touch with the challenges and experiences of their mentees, peer ...
At Onondaga Community College (OCC), student success is everyone’s job. And that’s not just a phrase that gets tossed around - OCC works hard to ...
At Mentor Collective, we believe the secret to effective networking is paying it forward. Connecting others keeps your network active and, most ...
With most college enrollments still struggling to retain pre-COVID levels, the often-overlooked group of transfer students is becoming a more ...
The college admissions process is notoriously confusing. And for many students—especially those who are the first in their families to go to college ...
Located about 45 miles east of Los Angeles, University of California, Riverside educates one of the most diverse student populations in the nation ...
The University of West Florida (UWF) believes in the power of higher education to drive change, specifically when it comes to affecting generational ...
Feeling a sense of belonging at one’s college or university is strongly connected to a host of positive student characteristics, including ...
In a positive trend, graduate enrollment has grown by 4.9 percent since 2019—a major win considering the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on ...
In a post-pandemic landscape, higher education institutions of all kinds are struggling to regain lost ground, and two-year colleges are no ...
“Wellbeing” is perhaps one of the most ambiguous terms in higher education and is often the center of conversation when talking about holistic ...
The headline says it all: According to a recent survey from Inside Higher Ed, College Pulse and Kaplan, “college mentor relationships reach savvy ...
With the economic and social disruption of the pandemic, graduate student populations around the country find themselves in a tenuous spot.
File this under peculiar pandemic outcomes: more and more institutions (at least for now) no longer require students to submit SAT or ACT scores as ...
Like many Mentor Collective partners around the country, Central Michigan University (CMU) entered the post-pandemic academic year with an eye toward ...
Peer mentorship has been increasingly embraced as a high-impact practice in higher education (Collier, 2017). Motivated by research validating the ...
Critical to the success of the Mentor Collective platform and programs is the team of professionals dedicated to dissecting, examining, and ...
Like many Mentor Collective partners around the country, Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) entered the post-pandemic academic year with an eye toward ...
When talking of mentorship, we often think of an undergraduate university or corporate setting. At Mentor Collective, after 7+ years of setting the ...
Peer mentorship has been increasingly embraced as a high-impact practice in higher education (Collier, 2017). Motivated by research validating the ...
For many students, college acceptance does not equate to college enrollment (Arnold et al., 2009). Many students who have accepted a place to study ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led institutions of higher education across the nation to reconsider initiatives and rethink strategies to more effectively ...
Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) is the third-largest campus in the Indiana University system. They have a total student population of nearly ...
On May 28, 2020, Mentor Collective was pleased to host a webinar with Dr. Farrah-Marie Gomes, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, to discuss why the ...
The mission of the Student Access and Success office at Lehigh University is to expand access for all underrepresented groups, with a focus on first ...
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