Resources for Mentors

BCS mentor guides

Start here for our program guidelines and answers to common financial aid questions.

📄 BCS Mentor Guidelines (PDF)

📄 Mentor Financial Aid Questions (PDF)

General resources

A curated library on first-generation students, college success, and educational equity.

• Mentoring Across Cultures — Academe, 2007
• Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure — The New York Times, 2016
• Don’t Quit on Me: What Young People Who Left School Say About the Power of Relationships — America’s Promise Alliance / BU School of Education, 2015
• Who Gets To Graduate? — The New York Times Magazine, 2014
• What It’s Like to be the First Person in Your Family to Go to College — The Atlantic, 2014
• First-Generation Students Unite — The New York Times, 2015
• The Struggle to Be First: First-Gen Students May Be Torn Between College and Home — California Magazine, Spring 2015
• What I Remember About Orientation as a Low-Income, First-Generation Student — Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 2019
• Classroom Time Isn’t the Only Thing Students Have Lost — The Atlantic, 2021
• COVID-Era College: Are Students Satisfied? — Inside Higher Ed, 2021
• The Lies We’re Sold about the ‘College Experience’ — Vox, 2021
• What the Privileged Poor Can Teach Us — The New York Times, 2015
• Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States — The Pell Institute, 2019