Overview

Academic Coaching provides students with the skills, guidance and support necessary for reaching long-term goals and overall achievement. Academic coaches work individually with students to clarify priorities and set milestones for success. Academic Coaches, like an athletic coach, will share appropriate strategies, academic learning tools, and campus resources, enabling students to meet their full potential while at Suffolk and beyond.

Benefits of Working with an Academic Coach

• Boost semester and cumulative GPA
• Learn helpful techniques to ease test anxiety
• Strengthen study skills
• Increase awareness of other campus resources
• Create specific action plan to achieve academic goals
• Develop effective time management system
• Get off academic probation
  
  

Tips and Reminders

• Academic Coaches are professional staff members of the Ballotti Learning Center
• Academic Coaches are available through walk-in and by appointment
• Students will be assigned their own personal Academic Coach
• Students can also utilize tutoring and study group services for specific course content
  

How to Request an Academic Coach

• Appointments can be made by calling the BLC at 617.573.8235 or in person at our center, located in the Donahue Building, Suite 208.