Academic/Student Success Coach (Restricted)

Mission of Unit:

The mission of the school of nursing is to champion health and well-being through the power of nursing education, discovery and practice.

Chief Purpose of this position:

The Academic/Student Success Coach facilitates the process of exploring and developing skills, behaviors and habits that contribute to success in the nursing program. These include academic goal setting, learning and study strategies, time management and organization, self-regulation and self-efficacy.

This is a restricted position with an end date after one year, and continued employment is dependent upon availability of funding.

General duties include:

- Foster the development of students' skills, behaviors, and habits that contribute to success in nursing, college and beyond, and helps students to identify and overcome obstacles that impede academic success.
- Help students to identify, develop, and implement learning strategies and study skills specific to course materials.
- Create and develop relevant course material for workshops, and other programming for nursing students to help them examine their learning styles, habits of learning and studying, information retention and current difficulties or barriers to success; Participates in Orientation and other nursing program activities as assigned/appropriate.
- Monitor the progress of students who seek academic coaching services via check-ins, scheduled meetings, proactive outreach, and regular communication.
- Collaborate with the Office of Student Success (OSS) to refer students to appropriate academic personnel and support resources and collaborate with others as necessary to monitor and accelerate the academic progress of referred students.
- Educate/Inform faculty on issues related to best practices for student learning.
- Represent the SON at University meetings as appropriate
- Initiate and maintain relationships with central university resources to support student learning and performance
- Communicate identified issues to faculty, program directors, or associate deans as needed
- Facilitate peer tutoring services for the SON
- Collect, input, analyze, and interpret data as required, including academic testing data
- Collaborate with other Academic Success Coach

Position Responsibilities:

1. Provide support to the pre and post-licensure BS program (45%). P

- Provide academic coaching to nursing students one on one and in groups as appropriate.
- Work with students to examine their learning styles, habits of learning and studying, information retention and current difficulties or barriers to success.
- Heighten students’ awareness of requirements for achieving academic success and assist them in discovering new strategies to support learning.
- Foster a supportive relationship and enhance students’ personal accountability.

2. Work closely with academic advisors, BS program director and faculty to support student learning (45%).

- Collaborate and coordinate with OSS and University level services in support of student learning (e.g., DAS, tutoring, writing).
- Oversee peer tutoring activities in the school.
- Work with academic advisors to refer students to appropriate services when dealing with adverse social determinants of learning (health, social, economic, environmental).
- Educate/Inform faculty on issues related to best practices for student learning

3. Other Duties as assigned (10%)