COACH Community

The COACH Community connects Hanover alumni with students in flexible, meaningful ways—through classroom conversations, career-focused interactions, and real-world insight.

Built on five years of success from the original COACH Mentoring Program, the COACH Community has evolved to better reflect how students learn today and how alumni want to engage. Not every connection is designed to be long-term. Many opportunities are intentionally short-term, class-based, or focused on a specific career-related need.

Why Join the COACH Community?

As a member of the COACH Community, you can help students by:

  • Sharing professional and personal experiences
  • Offering career insight and encouragement
  • Supporting résumé reviews, mock interviews, and classroom conversations
  • Helping students better understand life after Hanover

Whether you have 15 minutes or an hour, there are meaningful ways to get involved.

How It Works

Through HanoverConnect, alumni can:

  • Activate and update their profile
  • Select areas of interest and preferred ways to engage
  • Participate in opportunities that fit their experience and availability
  • Stay connected to Hanover in a way that works for their schedule

You choose your level of involvement.

Ways Alumni Can Engage

COACH Community members may participate in a variety of ways, including:

  • Career conversations
    Share insight about your field, career path, and life after Hanover.
  • Classroom-based engagement
    Support course assignments through informational interviews, résumé feedback, mock interviews, or panel conversations.
  • Short-term student connections
    Participate in a few check-ins or conversations over the course of a semester.
  • Shared experiences and perspectives
    Connect with students through common backgrounds, interests, or experiences when opportunities arise.
What to Expect

The COACH Community is designed to be flexible and clear.

  • Many interactions are one-time or short-term by design
  • Students are expected to come prepared and communicate professionally
  • Alumni volunteer their time and share real-world perspective
  • The Levett Career Center helps coordinate opportunities and support the experience
Get Started

Ready to join the COACH Community?

Activate your HanoverConnect account to get started, then select how you’d like to engage.

Already involved? Log in to update your profile and explore current opportunities.

A Shared Mission

The COACH Community reflects Hanover College’s commitment to lifelong learning, connection, and student success. By sharing your time, talent, and experience, you help prepare the next generation of Panthers for what’s next.

Questions?

Jenny Siepler Moss ’06
Executive Director, Levett Career Center

Christy Hughes
Director of Alumni Relations

Email: coachmentoring@hanover.edu

Testimonials

We discuss goals every Monday afternoon to set for the upcoming week and celebrate outstanding accomplishments. Having a mentor has been helpful. Lauren has given me advice on all sorts of things, such as how to approach a roommate about various topics, how to make it through quarantine (and share my experience with the school), how to speak up to a professor, and, most importantly, finding time to give myself a break and relax. One of my biggest goals this year was expanding my social network, and Lauren has helped me find opportunities to take advantage of, as well as connect me with people she knows. She has also helped me draft emails to different people, making me feel confident in the message I was sending. Ultimately, she has been exceptional at lending a listening ear when I needed to rant about chemistry and providing a different point of view to see the situation.

Last semester has been by far my most enjoyable semester during my time here at Hanover. Partly because I loved my classes, but mainly because my mentor was there to help me feel and act my best. We plan to meet face-to-face in June and possibly again in October, which I am deeply excited about.

- Maddie Mann '23

Questions

Do you have any questions or are interested in learning more? Send an email to coachmentoring@hanover.edu.

 

Jenny Siepler Moss '06
Executive Director 
Levett Career Center

Christy Hughes
Director
Alumni Relations​

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