Student Success Coaching | Tutoring and Academic Support

What is Success Coaching?

Success Coaches offer individualized academic support to all UNK undergraduate students to improve their college experience! The Loper Success Hub offers both peer student success coaching and professional student success coaching.

How can Success Coaching help me?

Success Coaching will help you develop valuable college life skills. Our aim is to help you feel more confident in yourself and your abilities and help you explore the many resources available at UNK. Your coach will help you identify and achieve your goals through continuous one-on-one support.

Peer Success Coaching

Your peer coach will support you, challenge you, and hold you accountable through weekly coaching sessions. Topics are customized to meet your specific needs and may include goal setting, time management, study skills & strategies, motivation & mindset coaching, stress management, and general guidance for better self-care practices. Success Coaching is a holistic approach toward achieving balanced and healthy life goals for successful outcomes.

Book an Appointment with a Peer Success Coach

Note: We have also partnered with the Biology Department to provide a Success Coach specifically for students in that department. Schedule an appointment with the Biology Success Coach.

Professional Success Coaching

The Student Success Coordinator, located within the Loper Success Hub, partners with students, faculty and staff to build confidence, set goals and create action plans with our students, providing a toolbox for lasting success at UNK and beyond, with a focus on the following:

Social, emotional, academic, and physical health coaching
Resources and support for all students
Help with referrals to other campus entities to help students thrive at UNK

Request an appointment with the Student Success Coordinator

Our services include

Personalized Success Coaching

Bi-weekly one-on-one sessions to define academic, social, emotional and physical health goals

Skill-Building Workshops & Resources

Guidance on time management, test preparation, effective learning skills and strategies, communication and problem-solving.

Financial Literacy Support

Assistance with budgeting, balancing work hours and connecting to campus resources and programming.

Motivation & Accountability

Ongoing check-ins to keep students on track and recognize and celebrate progress.

When to meet with a success coach?

Feeling overwhelmed? Anxious or stressed? Tired or over-loaded? Trouble focusing in class or studying? Struggling with test anxiety? Maybe your grades are slipping, and you don’t know why, or you have trouble making it to classes or appointments? Financial struggles making you feel like you need to add more work hours, but don’t know how to fit in time to do homework and study? Feeling a loss of motivation in your daily life, or just finding it hard to know what you need, you just know something isn’t quite working? It may be time to meet with a success coach!

What to bring: laptop, phone, pen, paper, planner if you have one, and an open mind.

What to expect at your first appointment: Be prepared to share your class schedule, work schedule, and any obstacles you might be facing. You will complete a self-assessment, which you will review with your coach. The more your coach knows about what you have going on, the more they will be able to assist you with an action plan to help you set realistic goals to work on over the next few weeks.

Review your action plan you created during your session and begin working on the to-do items and plan laid out and be sure you have another success coaching appointment set up and in your calendar. Remember, learning something new takes time and PRACTICE! Be sure to give yourself grace. With consistency and practice, it gets easier over time.

Try to remember to approach each task with a growth mindset. Learn to recognize limiting belief statements like “I can’t...,” I’m just bad at...,” “I’m too tired to...,” “I don’t like to...,” and “it’s too hard to...,” etc. Respond to these limiting belief statements with a GROWTH MINDSET statement: “I’m not good at this YET, but with practice I will be!” “I will learn to do...,” etc. If you need help developing a growth mindset, speak to your success coach.

Developing self-discipline and accountability will help you reach the goals you want to achieve. Success Coaching will help you work on these important skills!

When a student may be disengaged, struggles with coursework, or seems overwhelmed, faculty and staff can submit a quick referral to the Loper Success Hub. The Student Success Coordinator will initiate contact, conduct an initial meeting and develop a tailored action plan, allowing instructors to focus on teaching with confidence that their student receives proactive support.

When to Refer

Students are encouraged to connect if they are:

Experiencing anxiety, stress or low motivation
Struggling to focus on class(es) or prepare for exams
Missing classes or appointments
Overextended by work, personal and/or study demands

How to Refer a Student
Phone: 308-865-8728
Email: successhub@unk.edu

No paperwork required. We just need a name and a brief description, and the Student Success Coordinator will take it from there.

Get connected with a Success Coach today!

Success coaching is available by appointment both in-person and online. In-person success coaching is held in the Loper Success Hub on the 2nd floor of the Library. Please check in at the Loper Success Hub welcome desk when you arrive.

If you have further questions or need to contact us for assistance, you can reach us by phone 308-865-8728, or email successhub@unk.edu.

Schedule an appointment