Success Coaches
Success Coaches are dedicated to helping sophomores, juniors, and seniors define academic, personal, and career goals.
How Success Coaches Help You Get the Most Out of College
Success Coaches work hard to help sophomores, juniors, and seniors get the most out of their college experience.
- We provide intellectual, emotional, social, and cultural guidance to students so they can reach their goals as students and can continue that success as graduates.
- In order to excel at our work, we strive to build strong relationships with their students to help identify strengths, boost motivation, cultivate confidence, and address any barriers to success.
If you'd like to learn more about this program, check out the official IMPACT website.
Meet our Success Coaches
What do Success Coaches Help With?
Success Coaches work one-on-one with students to make sure that they can help create and nurture long-lasting and positive change in a student's life.
Here's some of the many things we'll help with:
- Build community / trust
- Goal Setting
- Identify strengths
- Development – both current and future
- Plan of action to complete degree
- Motivate & inspire to accomplish
- Hold students accountable
- Consult / Assist / Refer (may include workshops) – Skill Building
- Problem resolution
- Time management
- Create balance / stress management
- Study skills / tutoring / supplemental instruction
- Personal development
- Professional development
- Campus involvement – community
- Academic progress
- Consult on
- Meet to discuss (face-to-face or on Zoom)
- Help to navigate systems…myOleMiss, Blackboard, etc.
- Use program analytics to monitor
- Liaison of students to:
- Faculty
- School / College
- CSSFYE
- Financial Aid
- Bursar
- Counseling Center
- Advising
What Success Coaches Don't Do
Where are here to help, 100%. But part of your growth as a student is handling many of the day-to-day and possibly difficult realities of campus life on your own.
Here's some of the things Success Coaches won't help with and trust you to do on your own:
- Academic Advising / Registration
- Make decisions for students
- Complete students’ work for them
- Serve as mediators between faculty and students
- Contact faculty or staff on the student’s behalf
- Provide subject-specific tutoring
- Provide psychological counseling services
- Lift Holds. We will advocate for students when working with offices across campus, but we are not able to lift holds.