About Session
This workshop focuses on creating an Academic Coaching program either from the ground-up or as an extension of an existing learning assistance center using Bergen Community College’s Cerullo Learning Assistance Center and its integration of an Academic Coaching Program into its already robust tutoring services as a model. From funding (including finding grant opportunities) to recruiting Academic Coaches, from getting faculty buy-in to integrating academic coaching into the college’s culture, we will look at laying the groundwork for this expansion of services for an already award-winning learning center. An open discussion about funding, best practices, and separating the “Tutor” from the “Academic Coach” along with participant feedback will be highly encouraged.
Key Points
- Applying for grants & allocating funding for academic coaching
- Doing research and compiling resources for establishing an academic coaching
program - The challenges of adapting best practices to a community college setting + establishing an academic coaching program at an existing tutoring center
- Developing partnerships on campus to facilitate new student resources
- Assessment plans going forward
- Monitoring probationary + warning students via Tutortrac
- Analyzing GPAs, retention + persistence data annually
- Collecting qualitative data from students who utilized the program via a survey
informed by Assessment