Hey, Nik, how you doing?
I'm good.
How have you been, Esteban?
I've been great,
but I had a few questions
because I know you're the head of .the
Achieving the Promise Academy,
so I had a few questions about that.
First of all,
what is the difference
between a coach and a tutor?
Ah, yes. Okay.
So I'm glad you asked
this question, Esteban.
Because you know that we're the academic
coaching program here at the College,
but like many students,
we're not quite sure
what's the difference between
an academic coach and a tutor.
You're going to want to meet with a tutor
in one of the learning centers
when you have a specific question
about how to do better on an assignment
in a class.
You're going to go
to the math tutoring center
so that you can meet with a math tutor
and they'll be able to help you
on that pre-calculus problem.
They're going to help you
with what to learn.
Now you're going to want to meet
with an academic coach
when you also want to get some feedback
and help making a plan with how to learn.
How can you do better
with time management in a class?
How can you create a plan to succeed
in all your courses, not just
this math class.
So an
academic coach is going to be able
to meet with you to ask
what's working for you?
What's not working?
So that you can build on your strengths
and your passions
and what it is that's working
well for you.
And then you can make a plan
on what you want to improve on.
So an academic coach
might help you identify
that you want to go to the writing center
because that's part of your plan
to succeed overall.
But then they
might also help you to think about
how can you manage stress
and how can you make sure that you're
achieving your full potential
to succeed in college overall.
Okay.
So I was on the website
earlier and I also read about
an academic advisor.
So is there a difference
between an academic coach
and an academic advisor?
Yeah, yeah.
There are differences in
just like academic
coaches are going to help
you make the most of tutoring, we're
also going to help you
make the most of the academic advising.
You always want to be
with an academic advisor
so that you can make sure
that you are on track
to graduate on time.
They are the College's official resource
for helping
you look at the courses you need to take
that meet your degree plan
that if you want to transfer,
are going to be transferable
to another institution.
And they're also going
to ask you questions about your goals.
What do you want to do overall
and how does this degree fit your goals?
But when you meet with an academic coach,
we're going to dove
a little bit deeper
into, again, what's working for you
and what you want to do better.
And we're going to make sure
that you're meeting
with your academic advisor
because they're crucial
to your academic success at the College
as well.
Great.
Now, the one thing that as a student
I'm really worried about
is money saving, stuff like that.
So is the Achieving
the Promise Academy program service,
is it free? Yes!
I'm so glad you asked this.
So all academic
support services at the College
are at no cost to students.
So you can get an embedded academic coach
in one of the historically hard
to pass courses here at the College
totally free.
You just sign up for those classes
and they have a coach in them
who can help you to succeed
in that course.
Or if you request a personal coach
again, it's at no cost to you.
All you have to do is be enrolled at MC.
If you're taking noncredit classes,
you're earning a certificate
in a program,
you're getting some specific training
you can request a coach.
If you're taking credit classes
here at the College
you can register for a class with a coach
or you can meet
with a personal academic coach,
totally free at no cost to you.
Thank you so much, Nik, that actually
clear things up a lot from me.
So again, thank you so much.
Any time Esteban, you know that.
And we hope you'll help us
get the word out
to other students
about this academic coaching
program here at MC. Yeah, absolutely.
Thank you again.
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