UB MentorNet Pilot

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Beta-Testing Activities

As volunteers during the pilot, faculty will be able to create, review and modify their user profiles that highlight their research, teaching, and career development interests, their mentoring needs or areas of mentoring expertise, respectively. Study participants will be able to explore the platform’s features, including browsing and filtering faculty profiles across departments, saving favorites, and initiating connections. MentorNet also includes communication tools, a calendar, task lists, and discussion fora that are open for exploration.

Pilot Timeline & Expectations

  • The pilot study will be open through the end of June, 2025.
  • During this time period, volunteers are asked to log in at least once or twice to walk through and activate the different functions under the availabe tabs and within home page objects. 
  • A feedback function is built prominently into the landing page, where participants should enter their observations, questions, suggestions, and additional thoughts about any of the items' language, functionality, process flow, user interface, and general design features.
  • Interactions with other faculty volunteers are crucial to engage in testing the core functions of the application, designed to connect mentors and mentees and to foster successful mentoring. However, there are no expectations that interactions during the pilot study lead to lasting mentoring relationships.
  • Two faculty members who are already in an existing mentoring relationship are very welcome and encouraged to both sign up as volunteers, give the platform a test drive, and share their experience from the perspective of a fully formed mentoring dyad.
Register for MentorNet Pilot

Interested faculty who would be willing to test the MentorNet application features and help us make improvements to the overall functionality and user experience before the roll-out to campus, please sign up here.

Participant MentorNet Access

Personalized log-in credentails will be generated for registered volunteers and communicated via email, allowing them to enter into the portal through the button below.

  • Please note: If you have not yet registered and received a confirmation email, clicking the login button will generate an error message ;-)