Mentorship Their Way: How an Adaptable Mentorship Program Enhances Transfer Students’ Sense of Belonging

What would it look like to create a mentoring program specifically designed for transfer students, supporting them from pre-arrival to their graduation day? Whereas transfer student transition programs are often created with a deficit mindset or modeled after first-time, first-year research, these higher education professionals sought to create a program that focused on engagement in a way that met transfer students’ individualized needs and built their sense of belonging.