Peer Academic Coach for Spring 2025

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Academic Success

Details:

  • Category: On-Campus
  • Position Type: Student Hourly
  • Posted on: October 18, 2024
  • Open until: filled
  • Work Hours: 10
  • Wage: $10.50/hr
  • Location: Cedar City, UT

Description:

Do you like connecting with and supporting other students? Do you enjoy problem-solving with a team to generate creative solutions?

The Compas and Academic Recovery Program is seeking Peer Academic Coaches (PACs) to support cohorts of approximately 35 first-year students in our academic support classes. As a PAC, you meet with students during monthly 1-on-1 coaching sessions and serve as a teaching assistant for a face-to-face section of SUU 1050: College Student Success or a face-to-face or online section of SUU 1060: Academic Wellness.

PACs assist students to develop habits and skills that promote resilience, confidence, and self-directed learning.

Such skills include:

  • Clarifying academic goals and taking practical steps to achieve these goals
  • Building motivation, self-confidence, and accountability
  • Implementing routines for organization and time management
  • Strengthening study skills (i.e. reading comprehension, note-taking, review, and test-taking strategies)
  • Accessing resources
  • Adapting to new challenges

For more information: https://www.suu.edu/academicsuccess/academicrecovery/

Qualifications:

  • Sophomore status or higher
  • 3.00 GPA or higher
  • Full-time student at SUU
  • Minimum of one semester completed at SUU prior to Spring 2025
  • FERPA training and certification required upon hire

Needed to Apply:

  • Your contact information
  • A letter of interest tailored to this position
  • A resume (in PDF format)

Position start date: January 6, 2025


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