(INDIANAPOLIS) – The Indiana Commission for Higher Education says college mentoring appears to be paying off. The group shared the first-year results of its new Scholar Coaching Initiative. Results show more than 62% of coached freshmen scholars at Indiana State University remained for their second year. That’s up 3.8% over the ISU’s three-year historical average. For Ivy Tech, the retention rate was even higher; 45.7% of coached freshmen stayed for their second year of college. That’s an 8.8 percentage point increase above its three-year historical average.