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Mentoring Students Where They Are: Using E-Mentoring as a Retention Tool

Mentoring Students Where They Are: Using E-Mentoring as a Retention Tool. www.collegenowgc.org. WHO IS COLLEGE NOW?. College Now’s mission is to increase college attainment through college access and success advising, financial aid counseling, and scholarship and retention services.

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Mentoring Students Where They Are: Using E-Mentoring as a Retention Tool

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  1. Mentoring Students Where They Are: Using E-Mentoring as a Retention Tool www.collegenowgc.org

  2. WHO IS COLLEGE NOW? College Now’s mission is to increase college attainment through college access and success advising, financial aid counseling, and scholarship and retention services.

  3. WHO IS COLLEGE NOW? • College Now was established in 1966 as Cleveland Scholarship Programs, Inc. • College Now, our name since 2011, has awarded $62 million in scholarship dollars since our inception 48 years ago. • Providing college access and success advising, financial aid counseling and scholarship services in 200 schools and community-based venues across Northeast Ohio through outreach and collaboration and at our Resource Center in the Terminal Tower. • Awarding $2.6 million in renewable scholarships annually to approximately 1,350 students pursuing postsecondary education . • Offering effective retention services for our scholarship recipients, including a recently launched innovative mentoring program that pairs individuals from the community with our recipients through an interactive online initiative. College Now does all this on a $9 million budget!

  4. WHO IS COLLEGE NOW? Increase postsecondary attainment through our layered approach College Attainment

  5. Our scholarship recipients have a 90% retention rate, compared to 60% nationally for students from low-income backgrounds (retention refers to freshmen returning for their sophomore year). Our scholarship recipients have a 63% college graduation rate, which is nearly eight times higher than the 8% national college graduation rate for students from low-income backgrounds (based on six-year graduation rates). College now’s Success

  6. College Now Mentoring Program • Historical overview, past attempts at mentoring programs • Need for a mentoring program for our scholarship recipients • Start up funding

  7. College Now Mentoring Program • Pilot year • Build out • Goals (increase graduation rates) • Scale up • Programmatic needs: • Platform (research) • Budget • Infrastructure • Staffing • Curriculum • Volunteer and student management • Expectations for both students (mentees) and mentors • Goals and Outcomes

  8. PROGRAM GROWTH PLAN Data taken (or estimated*) in first semester of each academic year * Projected totals

  9. MENTORING PROGRAM BUDGET # of pairs 43 187 449 750* 975* 1,100* * Projected totals 9

  10. SCALING UP, DECREASING COSTS # of pairs 43 187 449 750* 975* 1,100* * Projected totals 10

  11. MENTORS AND MENTEES

  12. program structure

  13. program structure

  14. ONLINE MENTORING MODEL

  15. Preliminary Results * Projected total

  16. Lessons learned & Best Practices • Manage volunteer mentor recruitment • Improve continuously on program model • Develop a sustainable funding model • Evaluate to assess impact

  17. Many Additional organization benefits • New partnerships with Cleveland’s business community • Mentors are drawn from over 250 companies • Engagement opportunities with young professionals • 47% of our mentors are under 35 • Continued engagement with scholarship recipients • 51 of our current mentors are former scholarship recipients • Expanding board engagement • 14 board members are mentors, and over 240 mentors are from board companies • Broadens brand awareness • Attracts new funders and opportunities to collaborate

  18. ENGAGING CORPORATE CLEVELAND • AIG • American Greetings • Deloitte • Eaton Corporation • Ernst & Young • Key Bank • Lubrizol Corporation • Medical Mutual • Nordson Corporation • PriceWaterhouseCoopers • Progressive Insurance • Sherwin Williams • University Hospitals +200 more, and growing! “One of the greatest challenges we face as an employer in this region is attracting and retaining a qualified workforce. College Now continues to work aggressively to close our community’s education gap and prepare students for today’s workforce by increasing the number of Northeast Ohio students who graduate from college. The Mentoring Program is a key component of this effort.” - Fiona Chambers, Managing Tax Partner at Deloitte, and College Now Board Member

  19. www.collegenowgc.org

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