Northwestern Network Mentorship Program
The Northwestern Network Mentorship Program (NNMP) is designed to cultivate meaningful, professional mentor/mentee relationships between the school’s accomplished alumni and current students or fellow alumni. Alumni with degrees from all class years, programs, and schools may participate as volunteer mentors, mentees, or both; degree-seeking students may participate as mentees. These mentoring relationships are meant to provide valuable support and guidance to students and alumni as they navigate their careers, explore new career paths, or consider graduate school.
How It Works
- The program is open to degree-seeking students and degreed alumni from all class years, programs, and schools.
- Participants must register by logging onto the mentorship program’s online platform and completing a profile, which takes 10 to 15 minutes.
- Alumni may participate as a mentor, mentee, or both at the same time. Students may participate as mentees.
- Student and alumni mentees are then able to search for and request a mentor who best matches their career interests.
- Alumni mentors may either accept or decline a mentorship request.
- Mentors may accept up to three mentees at a time; mentees may have up to two mentors at once.
- Mentors remain anonymous until the connection is accepted. Once mutually established, the mentor-mentee pair then agree on goals and communication preferences, including whether they’ll speak by phone or meet in person and how often they’ll connect, whether it's once or multiple times throughout the year.
Please email your questions to mentor@northwestern.edu.