tnAchieves makes some tweaks to scholarship mentoring program

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) – tnAchieves is re-imagining their mentoring program for students to deal with the new realities of college life.

Basically, fewer people are going to college since the pandemic… down 9%.

The tnAchieves program offers university scholarships and then mentors the students to make sure they follow through on their education.

The basics will remain the same next year.

But the 2023 program will get some new tweak on the mentoring:

• Mentors will return to an in-person meeting with their students. For the first time since the pandemic, mentors will gather at a tnAchieves team meeting in December or January to begin relationship building with their assigned students.
• Mentors will begin work with their 2023 students earlier than ever before. tnAchieves will provide mentors with their student’s contact information in November of 2022, allowing mentors to have earlier access to their students during their college-going planning.
• tnAchieves will continue to leverage familiar virtual tools. During the pandemic, tnAchieves introduced online tools to assist mentors in maintaining effective student connections. The mentoring role will continue to rely on and encourage use of these tools for effective mentoring.

The program is looking for 9,000 mentors by October 21, 2022.

They say you can do it with just one hour per month and a commitment to make a difference in the lives of students.

You can learn more and sign up at https://tnAchieves.org/mentors.