Retaining STEM Students Through High-Impact Mentorship

Loss of STEM majors continues to be an ongoing national concern. Reports cite millions of job openings with a small fraction of today’s workforce having the skills to keep up with innovation.

How is postsecondary education addressing their share of this multifaceted problem? By building support structures for college students – including peer & alumni mentorship – that seek to encourage student persistence and fill the talent gap with a population that represents modern society.

Join us September 29th for a case study presentation with University of New Haven’s Tagliatela College of Engineering to discover how the peer and career mentorship programs are significantly affecting retention, offering career visibility for marginalized populations, and keeping alumni engaged.

The impact of the program on the retention of students from fall 2020 to fall 2021 was strong, with 77.3% and 84.1% of students who participated being retained at the college and university, respectively, compared to 66.7% and 70.4% for students who did not participate in the program.

"College-Wide First Year and Career Mentorship Programs" (Harichandran et. al 2022)

Register for This Event to:

See mentorship’s effect on STEM student retention; specifically how female and Black-identifying students are experiencing the greatest benefit (38.3% & 55.5% points higher than non-participants respectively)
Learn how University of New Haven is using Mentor Collective’s configurable program structure to tailor mentorship for both incoming students navigating college and upper-division students getting career-ready.
Learn how intentionally matching upper-division students with alumni mentors creates opportunities for students to see themselves in STEM professions and academia.
Hear student voices that show program adoption and value; 87.5% of the 20-21 AY first-year mentees volunteered to be mentors in the program’s second year.