Our newest student resource on campus is our Academic Success Coaching. Whereas academic advisors focus on the strategic path toward graduation, our academic coaches are trained to equip students with the necessary skills to identify and navigate obstacles to academic success.
Our coaching team zeroes in on what it takes to be a successful student. In a one-on-one ongoing coaching relationship, our coaches assess student needs through a series of interviews and instruments designed to help students understand how they learn and perform their roles as a student. As a part of this process, our coaching team engages students in the process of establishing academic and personal goals and monitors progress toward achieving them.
Research shows that students who build meaningful relationships with at least one individual during their time at a university become much more engaged, which leads to a stronger and more lasting relationship with the university and the student’s ultimate goals. Our academic coaches aim to build that relationship, addressing such issues of feeling stuck, and the pursuit of purpose, clarity, and passion. Coaches will work with students to improve their social, spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being.
What does it mean to study? What do I do with my time? How do I get it all done? As a part of the coaching process, students will spend time examining their own academic behaviors and how those behaviors impact their performance and progress toward their goals. Students will be able to participate in targeted workshops as well as one-on-one sessions geared to improve the way they approach being a student at Life University.
Whether students are assigned to coaches as a part of their admissions process or pursue coaching to improve their chances of performing well academically and getting into their chosen graduate or professional school, our coaches are eager to build a weekly or biweekly relationship tailor-made to suit their individual needs.
The academic advising team partners with on-campus and online students to plan individualized course schedules that meet the requirements for their specific programs of study. The process includes discussions about how their program aligns with their career and/or post-graduate aspirations as well as prerequisite courses and sequencing.
Our academic advisors teach our students how to access and utilize EagleNet, the university’s online scheduling system. Here, students can select, plan, and register for courses. Advisors are also instrumental in providing students with support as they finetune their schedules during the drop /add window. Later in the quarter should they need to withdraw from any course and rearrange their academic plan, advisors are more than happy to assist with this process as well.
Academic advising is generally a great place to stop when a student requires consultation on specific university policies. Advisors often have a general familiarity with those policies that impact a student’s path and can be vital in helping students think through and navigate their individual situations.
Each quarter, during weeks 7-10, academic advisors are available for appointments to meet with students to discuss the approaching term. Depending on the experience level of the student, that appointment can range anywhere from walking students through the step-by-step process of selecting individual courses to as brief as reviewing plans already prepared by the students themselves, offering minor suggestions for edits.
As students move closer to the end of their journey, advisors work closely with them during the senior audit process to confirm that students have completed the necessary requirements for graduation eligibility and have applied for graduation. In some cases, this may include exit exams, and internships in addition to the required Serving Lasting Purpose (SLP Service) hours.
Center for Academic Excellence
RCCE Building Rm 103
Monday – Friday
8:00 a.m. – 5: 00 p.m.
770-426-2724
