Nobody is left to figure it out alone.
A named mentor triad, a mission group of peers, a personal board, and an escalation system that switches on automatically the moment a student goes quiet.
Mission groups & personal board
The architecture that stops a student going quiet.
Parents and sponsors do not need to take our word for the support model. Here is exactly who is responsible for a student, on what schedule, and what happens if a student stops showing up.
Your mission statement
Written in your first week and revisited every term: the problem you are here to fix, who it serves, and what you are building toward. Every advising conversation starts by reading it back to you.
Your mission group
A fixed group of 8-10 peers working on adjacent problems, moving through the Forward Core together, reviewing each other's work weekly for all four years.
Your mentor triad
One academic mentor, one industry mentor tied to your employment thesis, and one peer mentor a year ahead of you. Three people who know your name and your mission, not a general enquiries inbox.
Your personal board
A standing review, built like a company board for one person: progress against your mission, your co-op readiness, and what needs to change next term.
Adaptive check-in cadence
Every student is checked in on weekly for the whole of their first term, no exceptions. After that, cadence adapts: stay engaged and it steps back to a light monthly touchpoint from your mentor triad. Miss a live session, a submission or a check-in, and the cadence automatically steps back up to weekly, immediately, until you are steady again.
The 14-day human-contact guarantee
No student goes more than 14 days without direct, named human contact from their mentor triad or mission group lead, whatever their engagement level. It is a published commitment, not an aspiration, and it is tracked against real attendance and submission data, not a survey.
It is structurally impossible to fall through the cracks at Forward.
The mentor triad, in detail
Three named people. Three different jobs.
Academic mentor
A named faculty member who tracks your progress against the Forward Core and your programme's curriculum, term by term.
Industry mentor
Tied directly to your programme's published employment thesis; keeps your work pointed at a real role, not just a mark.
Peer mentor
A student one year ahead of you who has already survived the term or block you are in now.
Early warning & escalation
What happens the moment a student goes quiet.
1. Signal
A missed live session, a late submission or a skipped check-in is logged automatically the same day.
2. First contact
Your mentor triad reaches out within 48 hours, by the channel you actually respond to.
3. Cadence steps up
Check-ins move to weekly immediately, and stay there until engagement is steady again.
4. Personal board review
If the pattern continues past two weeks, your personal board convenes to change the plan, not just repeat the warning.
For parents and sponsors
You are entitled to ask who is responsible for your student.
This page is the answer: a mentor triad by name, a mission group by cohort, a personal board on a fixed schedule, and a 14-day maximum before direct human contact, whatever a student's engagement level. Sponsors funding a placement can request the same escalation reporting the personal board sees.