Case Study: Georgia Tech streamlines student-alumni mentorship with PeopleGrove

Georgia Tech automates program operations for structured student-alumni formal mentorship

Georgia Tech, a public research university, faced the challenge of operating its formal student-alumni mentorship program remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their previous platform was disjointed and required manual management of pairing and communications, creating significant friction. To automate operations and provide a unified engagement destination, they turned to the vendor PeopleGrove and implemented their platform, known internally as Georgia Tech Connect.

The solution from PeopleGrove centralized recruitment, training, and matching into a single platform. This provided automated communications and nudges, and gave staff full visibility into participant engagement. The PeopleGrove platform enabled the university to efficiently scale the program, resulting in an outpouring of alumni support and a modernized, streamlined experience for both students and mentors.

Georgia Tech

Janet Kinard

Vice President of Engagement