Academic Coaching

PACs also provide accountability to help you stay on track while identifying effective study strategies, building and strengthening your study skills, developing effective habits, and assessing your progress. This is a free service to all enrolled Hope students.

Your PAC will meet individually with you to collaboratively develop a personalized action plan to optimize your academic performance. While academic coaching is similar to tutoring, tutoring focuses on mastering the content of a particular course whereas coaching supports the entire college experience. PAC meetings occur weekly, and after your first three sessions, are scheduled as needed. Several students continue weekly and across multiple semesters!

PACs will partner with you at any stage of college to help you develop self-advocacy and take full advantage of campus resources. Research shows that the most successful students realize that asking for and taking advantage of help is a mark of intelligence, not an indicator of weakness. You and your coach will begin by identifying your strengths, and then based on your strengths you will:

• Establish and clarify your academic goals
• Identify practical steps toward your goals
• Implement organizational tools and routines
• Strengthen your study skills
• Determine time management and planning options that work for you
• Learn effective study strategies and preparation for tests/exams
• Build motivation and self-confidence to succeed
• Balance academics and extra-curriculars
• Reflect on outcomes and retool based on new insights

If you are interested in determining whether a PAC is a good fit for you, fill out the interest form and watch for a follow-up email in your Hope account. You will be asked to schedule a meeting with the coordinator of Peer Academic Coaching so you can ask questions, better understand the expectations, and provide insight into the best peer coach match possible. 

Peer Academic Coaching Testimonies

“Things are going GREAT! My coach has been an incredible resource for me this semester. She has shared many ideas for strategies that I can try. Lots of them are working and I have implemented them into my regular routine! I really appreciate that she is a great empathetic listener but that she is also very honest with me. She is very trustworthy and I am so grateful for all of her help.”

“Academic coaching has been going very well with my coach. We are reaching good solutions, and he’s been great at helping me come up with ideas/goals/action steps, as well as getting me in the proper mindset when it comes to my academics and life in general.”