Connect with Us

Students may begin their success coaching journey by scheduling a session with a Peer Academic Coach or Academic Life Coach.

To Schedule with an Academic Life Coach, Use Inspire

Use this link https://sru.edu/inspire to reach Civitas Inspire, our student success management system. 

• Login with NetID (which uses your SRU sign-in). On the home screen, click Schedule Appointment.
• In Search Appointments. Select Service: Success Coaching - Academic Life Coach Session. Click Search.
• Available Appointments will show up. If you are looking for a specific coach, look for the Coach Name with each appointment option. Choose a date/time that works for you and click the blue box labeled Schedule.
• Review the Appointment Details. There may be modality options (Zoom or In-Person). Then, in the Session Note box, type any information you would like your coach to know about you and what you'd like to discuss.
• Click Schedule Appointment.

To Schedule with a Peer Academic Coach, Use Accudemia

Use MySRU Portal (Academic Support Tools > Peer Academic Coaching) or D2L (Academic Support > Accudemia) to reach Accudemia, our learning center management system. Then, follow these instructions:

• On your Accudemia home screen, Click "Schedule Appointment"
• Select Service "Peer Academic Coaching"; Then choose the Service topic that best suites your need for this session.
• Review available appointment options. You can also select a specific Peer Academic Coach from the drop-down as well as time and date filters. Select your preferred appointment time.
• In the "Notes" section, describe your questions and coaching needs. Confirm appointment details, then click "CONFIRM"

When to Connect with Us

We encourage students to use academic coaching as often as needed throughout their college journey. We assist students who seek growth/development in the following areas: 

• Assessing and improving academic habits
• Developing effective learning/studying strategies
• Exploring academic motivation and/or interest in coursework
• Transitioning smoothly to college academic environment
• Balancing commitments, time management, and prioritization
• Identifying and coping with academic stress
• Setting and making progress on academic and professional goals
• Reaching academic progress benchmarks and/or planning and accountability with improving grades

Questions about how to connect with us? Contact the Success Coaching team by emailing success.coach@sru.edu or calling 724.738.2011. 

One-on-One Coaching Session Topics

One-on-one coaching sessions are highly individualized and honor each student as an individual, their situation, and their goal(s). In all sessions, coaches help students explore how they can grow. All one-on-one success coaching sessions focus on helping students effectively navigate their college journey and thrive.

The topics below are not an exhaustive list, and they simply represent common themes and areas of growth that students bring to coaching.

With Academic Life Coaches:

• Academic and Professional Confidence
• Academic Motivation
• Goal Orientation/Accomplishment
• Mindset, Beliefs, and Academic Self-Talk
• Self-Regulated Learning & Metacognitive Strategy Development
• Management Systems & Approaches to Improve Executive Functioning
• Establishing a Personal-Professional Advisory Board
• Connecting Identity, Values, and Strengths to the Academic Journey
• Academic Habits & Academic Wellness
• Character Skills that Support Academic & Personal-Professional Thriving
• Action Planning informed by Agency and Self-Advocacy
• Academic Progress Plan

With Peer Academic Coaches:

• Getting Organized & Time Management
• Focus, Habits, & Concentration
• How to Study
• Effective Learning in the Classroom
• Mid-Semester Check In
• Exam Preparation
• Academic Empowerment & Accountability

Often, students meet with a coach more than once. Initial appointments focus on exploring the topic/goal and subsequent appointments focus on reflection, adjustments, and continued progress.

One-on-One Coaching Session Series

Our one-on-one coaching session series options are a semi-structured series of sessions surrounding common topics. These coaching sessions are highly individualized while also guiding students through a specific journey that may be linked to a core part of their academic identity or connection to a specific goal.

Master Your Mind Coaching: Become the best version of yourself in your college learning journey by exploring how your mind works and mastering your study techniques.

This series is for any student seeking to improve their study strategies and habits. Based on learning science, Peer Academic Coaches guide students through 4 sessions on the most effective learning strategies, where they teach these concepts and interactively coach students on how to embed these strategies in their personal learning journeys. Topics include: 1) Planning your study sessions: WHEN & WHERE, 2) HOW to study: Retrieval practice, interleaving, concrete examples, 3) Back in the classroom – notetaking, dual coding, and approaches to class engagement, and 4) Putting it all together

Designing Your College Journey Coaching: Proactively design and build your early semesters of college through exploration and reflection on how to be a deep learner.

This series builds upon orientation and summer success series topics for first-semester students. Designing My College Journey coaching is a series of at least 4 sessions with our Peer Academic Coaches and focuses on:

• establishing effective academic habits and study strategies
• learning how you learn
• connecting with academic resources

Rock Your Transition Coaching: Design your college life at SRU by reflecting on your college experiences and establishing a community of support with the Success Coaching team.

This series focuses on supporting transfer and readmitted students. The Rock Your Transition coaching series involves at least 4 sessions with an Academic Life Coach and/or a Peer Academic Coach. These sessions focus on:

• reflecting on your journey, your story, and your goals
• re-establishing effective academic habits and strategies
• intentional connections across campus to strengthen your experience at SRU

ASPIRE Coaching: Embrace your college transition and journey with a focus on: Academics, Skills, Persistence, Identity, Resource-use, and Empowerment.

ASPIRE coaching is a series of coaching sessions with our Academic Life Coaches specifically focused to work with students on nurturing strengths and unlocking their potential. ASPIRE coaching involves a series of 4 success coaching sessions per semester with an Academic Life Coach. ASPIRE coaching is uniquely designed to champion students who enter college from diverse backgrounds and walks of life and are interested in building a community of support. These sessions often focus on empowering students to connect their identity, values, and strengths to their academic journey.

Academic Re-Build Coaching: Rebuild your academic progress by evaluating your academic experience and setting realistic goals that will lead you toward your ideal academic performance.

This series is often selected by students who in poor status for Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements for federal financial aid eligibility and/or students who are in poor academic standing for general SRU policies or a specific group/scholarship requirement. Essentially, this series involves at least 3 sessions with an Academic Life Coach and 2 sessions with individually selected campus partners based on the student’s unique situation. Academic Life Coach sessions will focus on:

• Understanding your academic journey: where you’ve been, where you are now, and where you want to go
• Unpacking barriers and reframing a way forward
• Identifying new approaches to success and creating a plan with built-in accountability

NOT SURE?

Schedule an initial coaching appointment and we will work with you to either find a coaching series that fits well OR customize your coaching journey.

While many students may choose one of the coaching options above based on their interest and needs with coaching, all students can schedule with any coach at any time for individualized one-on-one sessions.