Making Educational Networks That Open Roads (M.E.N.T.O.R.) is a three-day, two-night program in which Hermanas Unidas de UCSB select and invite three underrepresented California high schools to the university. Twenty-five students from each of the three high schools will be selected through an application process. The three days consist of academic, financial, and admissions workshops. Participants get a chance to attend classes and tour the campus with Hermana volunteers. They also receive information from various student organizations on campus through a resource fair. In addition, there is a student panel added to the agenda. During this panel, participants meet and ask questions to UCSB students with financial and cultural backgrounds similar to theirs. The panel is traditionally followed by a motivational UCSB staff speaker.

During the pandemic, M.E.N.T.O.R programming has moved to online, but our mission has not changed!  One of our goals is that M.E.N.T.O.R. students will create networks with other high school students, current UCSB students, and faculty. We emphasize the importance of a higher education at a four-year university either immediately or after high school, or through transfer programs at community and city colleges. Help us make M.E.N.T.O.R. happen by clicking the donate button, anything helps and is greatly appreciated!