MentorPRO for Alumni Engagement
In their words.
The fact that I can just log in and find everything I need in one location is a gift.
Betsy P.Flash Mentor, Step Up
I love working with smart, kind people who want to effect positive change, and the MentorPRO team is all those things and more.
Kathryn RobinsonVice President, Programs, Step Up
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.
Flash mentoring asks for twenty minutes, not a year. Alumni post topics and a window.
MatchPROThe Connected Futures Flash Course teaches them to reach out in twenty minutes.
MentorPRO AcademyResearch your leadership can check.
Peer-reviewed findings are labeled as such. Manuscripts in preparation or in press are labeled too, because the difference matters.
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, YouthA 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 JournalA 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 AdolescenceConnected 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 PsychologyA twenty-minute Connected Futures Flash Course produced a large gain in networking self-efficacy in a pilot randomized trial.
Rhodes et al., manuscript in preparationStudents need people who can credibly vouch for them. AI should free mentors for the relationships that make vouching possible.
Rhodes, 2026, Frontiers in EducationHow alumni and career offices run mentoring on MentorPRO, in their own numbers.
A national flash mentoring community for young women, run by nearly 200 professional mentors. Participants have set 1,400 career and education goals and completed more than 350 flash mentoring conversations on the platform.
Case studyFlash mentoring designed to close the diversity gap in economics, finance, policy, and data science by connecting mentees with trusted professionals and tracking movement on outcomes.
Two programs with one goal. Flash mentoring for quick career guidance alongside formal one to one professional mentoring relationships that follow students to graduation.
The SDSU Alumni Association runs its alumni mentor program on MentorPRO. In the launch year 227 students were matched with 227 alumni mentors, 89 percent of mentees and 84 percent of mentors logged in, and 768 check-ins were completed.
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