Tuesday, September 29, 2026
11:00 am – 12:15 pm ET

Build Meaningful Connections To Improve Retention, Engagement & Success

As colleges and universities face declining numbers of traditional-age students, attracting, retaining, and supporting adult learners has become a strategic enrollment priority. Yet many institutions continue to rely on services and engagement models that were not designed with adult students' unique needs, schedules and life experiences in mind.

Join us on September 29, 2026 to explore how adult learner peer mentoring programs can strengthen belonging, improve retention, and support degree completion for veterans, parents, career changers, and other adult students. Drawing on research and award-winning program models, this session will provide practical strategies for creating meaningful connections, increasing access to support services, and fostering career readiness through peer-to-peer engagement.

Learn how successful institutions are adapting traditional mentoring frameworks to create more student-ready campuses. Through peer-to-peer adult learner mentoring programs, you’ll be better able to reduce barriers to engagement and deliver support in ways that fit the realities of adult learners' busy lives.

Topics Covered

Gain tools and strategies to help you:

• Increase your awareness of adult student learner needs and the college resources that are supporting adult learners at two year and four-year institutions.
• Recognize the necessary components for successful adult student peer mentor programs and what aspects could be added to current supports.
• Identify current best practices in supporting adult students to better understand current skills and areas for growth as well as building a program to support academic success and career preparation based on skills and interests.
• Explore ways colleges are integrating peer support directly into the learning management system (LMS) or course syllabus to reduce “out of class” time needed and improve adult student engagement.
• Expand current knowledge on the success strategies for establishing recognition, incentives or stipends to support the adult student mentor for their engagement.
• Explore national research from Complete College America, Aspen and other resources that can help inform next steps in developing the adult student.
  

Presenter

Dr. Cathy Briggs currently serves as the Dean of Student Success at Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC).
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Invite your entire team for one low price!

• Live 75-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
  
• Unlimited access for your entire team to view webinar recording for two years (available after live event)
• Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
• Certificate of completion for each participant
  

Instructions for live webinar access for your group are provided to you immediately upon checkout. Instructions for accessing the on-demand recording will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours following the live webinar. Feel free to contact us at info@paper-clip.com or 1-866-295-0505 with any questions. For information about licensing this webinar for unlimited distribution on your institution’s internal network/server, email info@paper-clip.com.

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