Our faculty are among the most sought after by UConn students seeking mentors like themselves with whom they share similar experiences. The “Pipeline Project” is a feeder program that promotes various pathways to graduate and professional school, involving 1:1 faculty pairings with students. As life-transformative educators, we are hands-on mentors and career advisors who provide high touch service. Our students secure purposeful employment, competitive, merit-based fellowships, summer research experiences, legislative internships, best paper awards, travel grants, etc.

Apprenticing many of whom are first-generation college students, our faculty have helped countless students visualize their own professional goals. Considerable research shows that improving equitable access to norms, soft skills, and informal knowledge via mentoring relationships are effective ways of improving parity in career trajectories. Applying to graduate or professional school is becoming an increasingly common expectation and, in some cases, a requirement for certain career fields. Writing a personal statement and completing the application process is a time consuming and not always intuitive process. The skills needed to write a grant proposal and conduct independent research, with a good chance of success, are usually taught informally and by a mentor.

Meet Our Pipeline Graduates

We’re proud of our 100+ alumni and their accomplishments. Our students excel in a variety of exciting careers in law, education, student affairs, public health, etc. Get to know some of our recent alumni and learn more about where their education has taken them.