Student Success Coaches

Helping you develop good study skills and habits

Overview

Student success coaches empower students to succeed in college and beyond. They help you build academic and college-life skills to prevent, prepare for and respond to common obstacles students encounter in higher education. And then they guide you toward achieving your personal goals by putting those learned skills into practice. In short, student success coaches help you learn how to learn.

At COTC, you can work with an assigned success coach from day one to ensure your educational journey is successful. Coaches are available on every campus and online.

One-On-One Coaching

Student success coaches work individually with students to develop healthy student-centered habits such as:

  • time management
  • learning styles
  • resource utilization
  • active notetaking
  • study skills
  • success planning
  • motivation
  • organization

Get Back on Track

Student success coaches also connect with students who are struggling or need academic assistance to get them back on track to completion.

Free, Online StudentLingo Workshops

StudentLingo is a series of interactive on-demand workshops, action plans, and valuable resources focused on helping college students reach their academic, personal, and career goals.

go to StudentLingo

When accessing StudentLingo for the first time, you’ll need to create a user profile using your COTC email. This profile will be used anytime you want to access these on-demand workshops.

Who Can Benefit from a Student Success Coach?

All students — no matter what their program or year in school — can benefit from a student success coach. Coaching is recommended for students who struggle to remember information from a lecture or reading, receive low scores on exams, have difficulty managing their time or are generally not performing well in class.

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Meet our Student Success Coaches

Student success coaches are available by appointment only.*

Schedule an appointment

*Each student is assigned a student success coach after orientation. To find out who your student success coach is, please email COTCsuccess@mail.cotc.edu or go to the “Student Assistance” section of COTCconnect on myCOTC.

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Alex Wilson

wilson.5455@mail.cotc.edu

Alex Wilson (he/him/his) is passionate about helping students self-advocate and navigate the challenges of college. Before COTC, he worked in IT for Park National Bank and provided after-school tutoring programs for K-12th graders for the Columbus Metropolitan Library system. Alex has a BA in Education from Kent State University. When he’s not on campus, Alex is hiking or camping, trying new recipes, playing board games, tinkering with retro video game consoles or disturbing his two cats (Chester and Nimue).

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Maddy Mead

mead.144@mail.cotc.edu

Maddy (she/her) specializes in providing tailored holistic support to students from all backgrounds. Her approach to coaching is student-centered, offering a welcoming and safe space for students to grow, develop academic and life skills, and achieve their goals. Maddy has a BA in Psychology from Kent State University and an MSEd in Higher Education and Student Affairs with a certificate in college pedagogy from Indiana University-Bloomington. When she’s not on campus, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, reading thriller and poetry books, playing Stardew Valley, traveling, hiking, and hanging out with her cat.

Headshot of Maddy Mead.