By: Dr. Matthew Hurwitz, Director of the River Hawk Scholars Academy at UMass Lowell
This past fall, we launched a pilot mentoring initiative here at UMass Lowell to match 20 Salesforce employees working out of the Boston area with 20 students in our first-gen academic program, River Hawk Scholars Academy. Our objective was to create a space for first-gen students to receive guided support in learning what it means to succeed in college and beyond.
When I started talking with Emily White, Director of Philanthropy Partnerships at Salesforce.org, about this idea, we knew we wanted to create a mentoring structure flexible enough to allow each mentoring match to find their own way into their relationship-building, but structured enough to ensure each matched pair was moving towards the same objectives. We also knew that an added challenge here would be creating the space for our first-year, first-gen students to feel
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