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MentorPRO for Alumni Engagement

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What partners say

In their words.

Alumni Engagement
MentorPRO isn't just another mentoring software tool. It's a blueprint for how to do everything right.
Delores Druilhet MortonDelores Druilhet Morton
CEO, Step Up
Alumni Engagement
The fact that I can just log in and find everything I need in one location is a gift.
Betsy P.Betsy P.
Flash Mentor, Step Up
Alumni Engagement
I love working with smart, kind people who want to effect positive change, and the MentorPRO team is all those things and more.
Kathryn RobinsonKathryn Robinson
Vice President, Programs, Step Up
Alumni Engagement
MentorPRO streamlined what had traditionally been a very time-intensive manual matching process, while delivering strong mentor-mentee pairings that aligned well with participant goals and interests.
Matt CarianiMatt Cariani
Director of Education, Research, and Innovation, National Coffee Association
Why alumni and career offices come to us

Flash mentoring. Brief, targeted conversations with alumni, on the topic a student needs most.

Alumni say yes to one focused conversation far more often than to a year. MentorPRO runs flash mentoring from start to finish, from the alum's topics and availability to the student's request, the conversation itself, and the record of what came of it. Connected Futures, our course built on a randomized trial, teaches students how to reach out in the first place.

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Flash mentoring screen listing alumni mentors who are available now
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The problemAlumni want to help in small doses.The solution

Flash mentoring asks for twenty minutes, not a year. Alumni post topics and a window.

MatchPRO
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The problemStudents do not know how to ask.The solution

The Connected Futures Flash Course teaches them to reach out in twenty minutes.

MentorPRO Academy

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Evidence for alumni and career offices

Research your leadership can check.

Peer-reviewed findings are labeled as such. Manuscripts in preparation or in press are labeled too, because the difference matters.

Peer reviewedFlash mentoring builds social capital

At Step Up, 285 alumni and professional mentors and 363 young women exchanged more than 5,000 messages, held 316 meetings, and set roughly 1,500 goals in two years.

Rhodes et al., 2026, Youth
Randomized trialTeaching students to recruit mentors works

A randomized trial of 550 students found the Connected Scholars course produced stronger help-seeking attitudes, more social capital, and more mentoring support.

Schwartz et al., 2023, American Educational Research Journal
Peer reviewedYouth-initiated mentoring outperforms

A meta-analysis found that mentoring relationships youth initiate themselves surpass the effects of traditionally assigned matches.

van Dam et al., 2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Peer reviewedTraining linked to graduation

Connected Scholars completers were more than three times as likely to graduate in four years, with historically marginalized students especially likely to enroll.

Hersch et al., 2026, American Journal of Community Psychology
In preparationA single session is enough to start

A twenty-minute Connected Futures Flash Course produced a large gain in networking self-efficacy in a pilot randomized trial.

Rhodes et al., manuscript in preparation
Peer reviewedWhy alumni relationships matter in the age of AI

Students need people who can credibly vouch for them. AI should free mentors for the relationships that make vouching possible.

Rhodes, 2026, Frontiers in Education

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Case studies

How alumni and career offices run mentoring on MentorPRO, in their own numbers.

SDSU Alumni & FoundationSDSU Alumni & FoundationBrookings, South Dakota

Summer engagement went from zero students to 158 before the mentoring year even started.

The SDSU alumni mentor program matches students with alumni working in their field of interest. In its first year on MentorPRO the program ran as it always had, with activity starting at the October kickoff. In year two the team ran a summer push to get students onto the platform early. By early September, 158 of 256 invited mentees had logged in. At the same point the previous year, none had.

We feel like MentorPRO puts our program in the right position to serve our mentor and mentee pairs and take the experience to the next level.
Travis Jensen, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, SDSU Alumni & Foundation
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University of Chicago EDE+University of Chicago EDE+

Focused access to professionals in fields where representation remains limited.

EDE+ uses flash mentoring to connect students with trusted professionals in economics, finance, policy, and data science and track movement on outcomes.

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Xavier UniversityXavier University

Brief career guidance alongside longer professional mentoring relationships.

Xavier runs flash mentoring for quick career guidance alongside formal one to one professional mentoring relationships that follow students to graduation.

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