Coaching to Complete
The University of Oklahoma Academic Life Coaching Model
“…it’s easy to feel insignificant as a new person in a large place. At one point, I was thinking about transferring because of some hardships, but I was encouraged by my Coach to get involved and it really changed my OU experience.”
-OU Freshman
“I feel like meeting with an OU Academic Life Coach has helped me tremendously. It helped open my eyes to resources I never knew existed. My Coach helped me set goals, educated me on the best way to study for classes, and helped me manage my time appropriately. I cannot thank my Academic Life Coach enough.”
-OU Freshman
"Meeting with my Coach regularly completely changed the direction I was heading. I was confused about my major, had a complete withdrawal semester, and considered moving out of state to finish my degree or quitting college altogether. My Coach asked powerful questions and was able to unleash an inner strength that I didn't know I had. Coaching sessions helped me realize a lot about myself, including negative situations that I needed to break away from. I am in such a better place now!"
- OU Junior
Coaching to Complete
The Story Behind Our Model
The University of Oklahoma is dedicated to creating impactful strategies that ensure our students receive exceptional personalized support for academic success. This commitment to student success has led to the development of our Academic Life Coaching program (ALC). The ALC program is made up of our Academic Advisors, Faculty, and Staff throughout the OU Norman Campus. These individuals have participated in an intensive Academic Life Coach training program, which has been accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
Over the past several years, members from our coaching community worked together to identify specific areas of life that our students struggle with daily. Through these discussions, we cultivated a list of eight “persistence themes” that impede our students journey to degree completion. After we identified these top student stressors, we created corresponding learning outcomes and powerful questions for each of these critical themes. Together, we were able to develop a holistic “Coaching to Complete” model. This model has become an instrumental tool in helping our students identify challenges and carry out personal action plans to overcome obstacles.
We are pleased to announce that when we created the “Coaching to Complete Academic Life Coaching Model,” we were committed to producing and opensource document to share with other higher learning institutions world-wide. We hope that you will find this tool helpful in developing important relationships with your students and initiate personalized support for student success!
OU ALC Coaching to Complete Model
