Recommendation 4: Provide mentoring for underrepresented student, faculty, and staff populations

Recommendation 4: Provide mentoring for underrepresented student, faculty, and staff populations.

Rationale: Research underscores the importance of inclusion strategies in retaining employees and students. Mentoring (peer to peer or otherwise) is an inclusion strategy that can benefit all parties and serve as a signature experience for the Trinity community. Furthermore, mentoring experiences with and for Trinity alumni serve as a meaningful volunteer engagement opportunity and a way for Trinity to continue to extend its resources to the alumni community. An intentional and coordinated mentoring approach will also serve the institution in reaching its moonshot goal because mentoring is a key inclusion strategy in retaining underrepresented populations.

Stakeholders: Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni

Recommended Actions

Examine and map existing forms of mentoring across campus (including the alumni population) and conduct a SWOT analysis or comparable analysis to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Performance Indicators Responsible Parties

Completed analysis map for existing programs, specific population needs, and potential gaps/opportunities. President; Vice Presidents; Executive Director for Institutional Research & Effectiveness; Chief Human Resources Officer

Charge a committee (or committees relevant to specific populations) with developing an action plan that establishes or enhances mentoring programs. Completed action plan (or plans) developed and shared with respective Vice Presidents for feedback, review, and modification. Vice Presidents; relevant stakeholder committees

Implement mentoring programs by population.

All Vice Presidents; relevant stakeholder committees

Suggested Timeline:

● Following the formation of a committee charged to examine mentoring practices, a review of existing mentoring programs should commence by the beginning of FY22. ● An action plan(s) that establishes or enhances mentoring across faculty, staff, and student populations should be completed no later than the conclusion of FY22 for implementation in FY23.