Mentoring for Success

Reward Program

In addition to helping you improve your grades and be successful in your college career and beyond, the Mentoring for Success Program at Western Michigan University also offers a reward program for continued goal fulfillment. After you complete each activity that is designed to help you enhance your education and college experience, you will collect points from your academic mentor that you could use to redeem for one or more of our prizes at the end of the semester. Prizes are available while supplies last and certain restrictions may apply.

Terms and Conditions

No more than five points may be awarded per week, although there is no cap for points you can earn and accrue per semester.
Points may be redeemed throughout the semester as soon as you have enough points to redeem items from one of the levels.
Points earned during each semester will not expire as long as you are still enrolled at WMU; they will be carried forward to the next semester and next academic year.
To redeem earned points for reward items, schedule an appointment through your assigned academic mentor.
Terms and conditions are subject to change without notice depending on the availability of reward items.

Your academic mentor will explain the terms and conditions of the reward program to you at your first meeting. You can also find more information about the reward program as well as how to collect points and redeem prizes by contacting our program office.

Collecting Points

When you complete one or more of the following activities, you collect points that you could use to redeem one or more of our prizes:

Meeting with your academic mentor (weekly or biweekly; each meeting is 15 to 30 minutes). 1 point
Receiving tutoring from the 24/7 online tutoring service (weekly; 15 minutes minimum per session). 1 point
Returning to the program for another semester (awarded when you return the following semester). 1 point
Meeting with an academic advisor or professor upon academic mentor's recommendation (up to three times per semester). 2 points
Scoring an A on a quiz, test, or exam (no more than one per week). 3 points
Attending a recommended workshop or event on campus. 3 points
Achieving GPA goal for the semester (awarded when you return the following semester). 3 points
No last-minute cancellations or no-shows to scheduled meetings with an academic mentor (awarded during the last meeting of the semester). 5 points
Other activities approved by your academic mentor. 1-3 points

Redeeming Prizes

When you have achieved a certain point level, you may choose one item from that level or any combination of items from any lower levels. To redeem prizes, please schedule an appointment through your academic mentor. Drop-ins are strongly discouraged, because a staff may not be here when you stop by.