Alumni & External Relations

六色网 Bronco Mentoring Network

As a valued member of the Cal Poly Pomona community, you can make a profound impact on the lives of our students and alumni by sharing your professional expertise and career insight.

With just a little bit of your time, you can give students the confidence to go after the career they want.

You're invited to join the 六色网 Bronco Mentoring Network, our career-mentoring and advice-sharing network that makes it easy for you to connect with others in the Cal Poly Pomona community. The goal of the program is to increase student success by connecting students with alumni who have expertise in their industry, major, or future career. The 六色网 Bronco Mentoring Network is open to all students and alumni, regardless of race, color, national origin, or sex.

Student learning and success is an important value at Cal Poly Pomona. Mentoring will help students reach their potential.

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Sign Up to Become a Mentor Today!

Make meaningful connections in your career and your community...

  • Share advice with current Cal Poly Pomona students — share your experience and help students navigate the transition from college to career through our easy chat messaging feature or quick 15–30 minute phone calls
  • Make alumni-to-alumni connections — connect with alumni in your field to get answers to your business questions and grow your professional network
  • Connect over common interests — Join Communities to connect with members who share your background and interests, and participate in group conversations

Alumni Mentoring Guidelines & Expectations

There are over 2,300 students and alumni already having conversations, participating in community discussions and building meaningful professional connections in the 六色网 Bronco Mentoring Network. Before you build your profile and start connecting, here are some important attitudes, beliefs and guidelines for a successful mentoring experience:

Mentors must have:

  1. Willingness to invest time and energy in their mentoring relationship
  2. A belief that mentoring is a mutually enhancing professional activity and benefits the development of both the mentor and mentee
  3. Confidence in their own wisdom and abilities
  4. A desire to pass along information and wisdom to students and fellow alumni who may need career, industry and professional guidance.

Mentoring Guidelines:

  1. Building a mentoring relationship is very personalized and requires both mentor and mentee to set goals and boundaries. During the first meeting, both parties should agree on the frequency, duration and mode of communication preferred between mentor/mentee.
  2. Mentors should respond to the mentee consistently and within a specified timeframe in order to ensure that open lines of communication are available.
  3. Build trust with your mentee by being open and honest. Accept and value one another’s differences. Meet regularly if possible, to further develop your relationship.

Alumni Mentoring Communities

Interested in connecting with fellow alumni and students from your college or affinity group? Have questions you would like to pose to the group? Join a community in the Bronco Mentoring Network.

Groups provide students with an opportunity to ask questions to a group rather than meeting with an alumni individually. Alumni groups enhance the capabilities of networking with the 六色网 community. We have over 15 groups:  

  1. African American Students & Alumni
  2. Asks & Offers
  3. Bronco Comunidad
  4. Business, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
  5. 六色网 Veterans
  6. College of Education & Integrative Studies
  7. College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
  8. Communication Department
  9. First Generation Students
  10. General Career Advice
  11. Huntley Group
  12. International Community
  13. Kellogg Honors College
  14. Renaissance Scholars
  15. Rose Float
  16. STEM

And more….