Tutor/Mentor Leadership and Networking Conferences were held in Chicago every six months between May 1994 and May 2015. The goal was to bring people together to network and share ideas, while increasing visibility and the flow of needed operating resources to all of the tutor/mentor programs in Chicago.
While the conferences have not been held since 2015 the Tutor/Mentor Connection/Institute, LLC continues to try to connect stakeholders with each other and with information hosted on this and other web sites. Connect with Dan Bassill, founder of this organization, on social media sites shown on this page.
Read more about the conference and tutor/mentor network building.
Visit this page to see map showing participants of every conference from 1994-2014.
Visit this site to see a StoryMap, showing universities that were hosts to conferences since 1994.
Read blog articles about the conference, written between 2008 and 2010 by Nicole White, a Northwester University public interest fellow. View articles about the conferences on the Tutor/Mentor blog.
Read this 2015 IVMOOC report showing analysis of 1994-2014 Tutor/Mentor Conferences.
In 2025 a new team of information visualization students from Indiana University looked at conference data and produced an open source tool that any even organizer could use to map participation. View the report at this link.
I'm looking for researchers and/or consultants who will do follow up on this work and will help others build participation mapping into future conferences. This concept map provides a time line for planning a conference and points to the new resources from the 2025 IVMOOC team. See planning map
See photos from past conferences.