The Relationship Advantage: How AI Helps Community Colleges Turn Connection into Career Outcomes Webinar
Build campus community using AI to strengthen relationships and retention.
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Webinar Details:
Community colleges are America's greatest engine of economic mobility and research keeps showing that a student's network often determines whether they land the job, finish the credential, or launch the business. Yet relationships are usually left to chance. In this session, you'll learn a practical framework for building community intentionally on campus, and see how AI can help you connect students to mentors, alumni, employers, and each other — at scale, without adding staff. You'll leave with ideas you can put to work right away.
Webinar Takeaways:
1) A simple framework for why relationships and social capital drive engagement, retention, and economic mobility — and how to treat community as infrastructure, not luck.
2) Practical, AI-powered ways to connect students with mentors, alumni, and employers at scale — without adding staff or complexity.
3) A live look at relational intelligence in action, with ideas you can adapt to your campus right away.
Speaker Info:
Trista Van Tine
Trista Van Tine is the founder and CEO of Nunchi, a relational intelligence company building the infrastructure that turns connection into opportunity. A lifelong coalition-builder, she co-founded the Michigan Founders Fund — a governor-designated Small Business Support Hub that is now the state's largest network of founders with more than 150 entrepreneurs who have collectively raised over $350 Million of investment funding -- and Michigan Tech Week, a multi-day event showcasing innovation. Her career spans venture capital (founding team of a $250M fund), education, global finance, and community-building and startups across five countries. Raised in rural, working-class Michigan, Trista built her career through relationships and now builds the tools that make that advantage accessible to everyone.