Driving Retention Through Authentic Peer Connections

On-Demand Webinar with Florida Atlantic University

 

Watch On-Demand To:

  • See how FAU implemented a scalable peer mentorship program to more than 1,400 students to scale peer support and drive leading indicators of student success.

  • Learn how Mentor Collective’s mentorship model impacts student persistence, specifically how peer mentoring helps first-time in college and transfer students. Students who utilized Mentor Collective saw a 3% higher persistence rate than non-mentoring students.

  • Explore the commitment to cross-campus collaboration that led FAU to train campus leaders to understand and utilize student data from the Mentor Collective platform to inform broader institutional strategy and eliminate barriers to academic and student success.

  • Hear strategies for supporting the invisible middle student (those who are doing well enough but may require more resources in the near term and lack the help-seeking behaviors to find them) who saw better retention rates at FAU as part of this new approach.

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Key Highlights of The FAU First-Year Connection Program:

  • African-American male students involved in the program was a 6% higher persistence rate
  • Commuter students who came in with a 3.99-3.50 GPA had a 7% higher persistence rate
  • Students who came in with a 2.99-2.50 GPA had a 6% higher persistence rate

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Our anticipated first year return on our investment with Mentor Collective will be about 3 dollars earned for every 1 dollar expended. More importantly, it rakes the 'back of the house' efforts from on the ground FAU staff; and allows our greatest resource, our people, to spend more effort and energy on direct student support."

Larry Faerman, Vice President of Student Affairs, Florida Atlantic University