University Mentoring Made Easy on Qooper

A university mentoring program pairs students, mentees, faculty, staff, alumni mentors, or peer mentors in a structured relationship that supports academic success, career development, and personal growth. These programs often include training sessions, workshops, online modules, and community-based programming.

Qooper provides the infrastructure to run these programs at scale, matching, communication, progress tracking, and feedback collection in one place.

Universities typically match participants based on academic interests, career goals, research areas, personal background, and availability. When done manually, this is slow and inconsistent.

Qooper matching engine uses customizable criteria to automatically pair mentors and mentees, whether they are students, alumni, faculty, or staff. This helps reduce bias and ensures more effective mentoring relationships.

Depending on the institution, mentors may include faculty members, staff mentors, alumni mentors, peer mentors, or subject-matter experts. Mentees often include undergraduate students, graduate students, or new faculty/staff seeking guidance.

With Qooper, program directors can create different mentor types, manage applications, and organize participants into multiple mentoring programs within the same academic ecosystem.

• One-to-one mentoring
• Group mentoring
• Peer mentoring
• Alumni mentoring
• Faculty development mentoring
• Career mentoring
• Research mentoring
• Hybrid and online formats

Programs can run simultaneously in one platform.

Training may include mentoring best practices, feedback skills, research mentoring skills, leadership development, unconscious bias awareness, and academic culture orientation. Some institutions use self-paced, asynchronous training; others run live workshops or small-group sessions.

Qooper supports all formats, with self-guided online training modules, interactive quizzes, dynamic tutorials, certificates, and progress tracking.

Mentoring improves academic skills, research productivity, publication opportunities, leadership readiness, networking ability, and access to career services. It also helps students navigate the tenure process, work-life balance, and social isolation challenges.
Qooper connects mentees with mentors, resources, and learning paths that reinforce both academic and professional development.

Yes. Program directors need visibility into meetings, goals, progress, and participant contributions.

Qooper includes built-in tracking tools, automated reminders, monthly meeting logs, and dashboards so coordinators can monitor engagement across the entire academic year.

Universities running faculty development, leadership development, or applied mentoring programs (e.g., MENTOR Institute, Mentoring Excellence Training Academy, University of Minnesota training models) can centralize everything on Qooper—training content, mentor assignments, discussion groups, and certification.

Absolutely. Institutions with multiple mentoring initiatives—FASE mentors, PUMP, peer mentoring, staff–student mentoring, or interdisciplinary research mentoring—can run all of them under one system.

Qooper allows different program directors, department chairs, and staff to manage their cohorts independently on the same platform.

Universities often use workshops, online courses, social activities, audio skits, publications, toolkits, and campus resources.

With Qooper, all resources are organized into a structured library and can be delivered through an engaging format—via mobile app, web app, or automated pathways.

Yes. Many universities involve alumni mentors, community partners, or external collaborators.

Qooper enables guest accounts, controlled access, and flexible user roles so external contributors can join without exposing university systems.

Program directors often spend hours managing applications, matching, communication, reminders, reporting, and evaluation.
Qooper automates:

• mentor–mentee matching
• training assignments
• meeting reminders
• progress tracking
• surveys and feedback
• reporting for grants or accreditation

This lets staff focus on supporting students instead of managing spreadsheets.

Yes. Universities hosting mentoring celebrations or offering certificates can automatically issue completion badges through Qooper’s built-in certification engine.

Orientation-related mentoring—such as transition to university life, academic workshops, or social activities—is fully supported.

Qooper helps keep new students connected through messaging, groups, events, and curated learning paths.

Qooper makes it easy for student mentees, faculty, researchers, and alumni to build professional networks through groups, forums, curated introductions, and shared interests.

This fosters long-term connections beyond the mentoring cycle.

Yes. Qooper incorporates evidence-based frameworks from leading institutions, national organizations, and mentoring experts, supporting best practices such as:

• defined expectations
• consistent feedback
• structured learning
• equity-centered mentoring
• progress measurement

This ensures higher-quality mentoring relationships on campus.