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Academic Coaching
Academic coaches are trained professional staff members well-versed in learning strategies and skills.
Academic success is important to students and our work focuses first on supporting students in defining what academic success means to them and then on partnering with students in identifying strategies, adopting behaviors, and developing action steps to support their academic journey.
Think of it this way: athletic coaches provide instruction and guidance specific to a sport, academic coaches provide instruction and guidance specific to learning.
Schedule an Academic Coaching Session
Make a first available appointment
Make a Zoom appointment after hours on Mondays
The links below will direct you to the Calendly scheduling platform for each academic coach.
Make an appointment with Rhi Suarez
Make an appointment with Sarah D. Olson
Make an appointment with Carmen Rodriguez
Make an appointment with Nataliya Braginsky
Drop-in Coaching
Academic coaching drop-ins take place during weeks 2-9 of the fall, winter, and spring terms.
Where: Berry 178
When: Wednesdays from 1-4PM
No appointment needed.
The Buddy Coaching Program
The Academic Skills Center offers Buddy Coaching. In addition to the one-on-one coaching model, you can now BYOB — Bring Your Own Buddy — to an academic coaching session. Add your name and your buddy's name (select 'add guest' during booking), when you make an appointment or bring a buddy along for drop-ins, which are available every Wednesday from 1-4PM at the ASC in Berry 178.
Common Academic Coaching Topics
- reading methods
- time management & organization
- notetaking
- exam, quiz, presentation preparation
- self-advocacy
- building and using a support network
- how to maximize office hours
- balancing academics and activities
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Tips from our Academic Coaches
- Keep everything in perspective. You're smart—and there are many tools and strategies for making the most of what you have.
- Define long-term and short-term goals and build your schedule around them.
- Access the Academic Skills Center and Peer Tutoring Program—online, by phone or in person. Our resources will help you manage your academic life at Dartmouth.
- Learn and practice specific reading strategies. They will help you comprehend, study and remember better.
- Stay healthy! Learn how to manage stress, get enough sleep, exercise, and choose nutritious meals and snacks.
- Join a tutoring group! Collaborative learning is effective and enjoyable. Research has shown a 2-1/2X efficacy of collaborative work over individual efforts.
- Learn effective time management! That's the key to getting everything done.
- Don't wait till you feel overwhelmed. Contact the Peer Tutoring Program early and often.
- Reinforce what you've learned with frequent review and repetition. If you USE it, you won't LOSE it.
- Believe in yourself! Your gifts got you here—learn how to use them to your best advantage.
Student Voices
"It's no exaggeration that the Academic Skills Center gave me a new lease on life. I met with the ASC before I even became a student. They helped me identify learning disabilities that had plagued me for decades. Thanks to the ASC, I tackled those disabilities and went back to school. I am now working on my master's degree at Dartmouth and recently completed a study-abroad opportunity at Oxford. The kid who worried about graduating high school many years ago is now looking at Ph. D. programs, thanks to the Academic Skills Center."