SHU Presents: The Mentor You Didn't Have to Ask For

Most mentorship programs still run on opt-in: a form a first-gen student has to find, a waitlist an advisor has to remember to update, a match a coordinator has to make by hand. In this session, the Campus Consortium Foundation looks at how identity and access systems (the same layer that already knows a student’s status, major, and flags) can securely connect students to mentors the moment they qualify, without adding staff workload, and what it takes for those systems to share one trusted student record.

What you’ll take away:

• How identity attributes (first-gen status, probation flags, transfer status) can trigger automatic mentor enrollment
• What “secure by default” looks like when mentors and mentees share access to sensitive student data
• Where automation reduces coordinator workload without removing human judgment
• How a unified student record and always-on support fit together in a connected mentorship stack