Shearwater partners with universities and secondary schools to help diverse groups of students engage in the school community. We develop online student support programs combining personalized mentorship and scalable reporting — improving student experience, increasing retention, and engaging young alumni.
Shearwater's programs focus on the student populations where the risk of disengagement is highest — international, underrepresented minority, and first-generation students.
One-on-one mentorship pairing incoming international students with mentors who help them navigate a new academic and social environment from day one.
Structured support programs for underrepresented minority and first-generation students.
Program-level reporting for administrators, not just anecdotal check-ins.
Extending mentorship relationships past graduation to build stronger alumni ties.
Delivered online, so a program can support hundreds of students per cohort.
Most retention efforts rely on goodwill and spreadsheets. Shearwater pairs personalized, human mentorship with scalable reporting — so partner schools get both the relationship and the data to show it's working.
A structured rollout designed for a school's academic calendar, not a generic SaaS onboarding flow.
Shearwater scopes which student populations and outcomes the program should target.
Students are paired with mentors before the semester begins.
Structured check-ins run through the online platform all term.
Program-level data goes back to the school, not just individual notes.
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"We finally had reporting we could bring to the provost's office instead of just saying 'students seem happier.'"
"Our international students had someone to ask the small questions to before they became big problems."
"The mentor matching was fast, and the reporting made our end-of-year review a lot easier to put together."
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