Monday, December 4, 2023
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Increase Retention and Success Through Impactful Mentoring Initiatives

Despite their popularity, uncertainty remains about how to implement, fund, and expand peer mentoring programs for success. How can you tap into peer mentorship programs to positively impact your recruitment and retention rates?

Gather your staff and colleagues and join us on Monday, December 4, 2023, to explore the critical steps needed to launch or relaunch an effective campus-wide peer mentoring program.  Learn how our two experts have evolved their formal mentoring program from a grant-funded office to a university-wide retention initiative supported by the institution. You’ll be able to draw from their success in creating, improving, and sustaining mentoring initiatives on your own campus.

Gain the initial and practical steps needed to implement a peer mentoring program on your respective campus. Explore the financial investment, human resources, and infrastructure needed to develop and grow a meaningful mentoring initiative.

Topics Covered

At the conclusion of this on-line training experience, you will be able to:

• Understand the critical structure, how to engage your campus and community partners, develop policies, and provide essential resources that support a meaningful and impactful mentoring initiative.
• Identify the key steps needed to create, change, or implement a peer mentoring program, and apply best practices to ensure its success. 
• Utilize persistence and engagement data to influence decision-making involving mentoring and recruitment initiatives.
• Increase student retention, academic success, and student engagement across diverse student populations with a coordinated and campus-wide effort through peer mentoring programs.

Presenters

Jordan DiPentima currently serves as Director of New Student Transitions & Family Engagement at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida.
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Dr. Rebecca Goldstein currently serves as the Director of Assessment and Research in the Division of Student Affairs at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.
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