I would check with your Alma Mater—we just stood this up 18 months ago at my business college, and the alumni jumped all over it. The system (peoplegrove platform) let’s you indicate how often you’re willing to connect with students, what your open to mentoring on (eg careers, industry, what courses world you take if you could roll back the clock (ps it’s always Analtics and scripting!), etc.)
It has been thrilling to watch both mentoring alumni and growing students each benefit from these interactions, and there’s $0 involved for participants—-both sides have an incentive to play by the rules (it world be pretty embarrassing to have your former school ban you from talking to students for failure to follow protocol). And, the system connects to career services, so repeated abuse by students jeopardizes the services available to them (which in my college is HUGE).
It has been thrilling to watch both mentoring alumni and growing students each benefit from these interactions, and there’s $0 involved for participants—-both sides have an incentive to play by the rules (it world be pretty embarrassing to have your former school ban you from talking to students for failure to follow protocol). And, the system connects to career services, so repeated abuse by students jeopardizes the services available to them (which in my college is HUGE).