Student Success Coach

Job Summary

The Student Success Coach is a full-time professional staff member in the Center for Academic Success ( CAS ) and an integral member of Lawrence’s integrated student success hub. The Student Success Coach plays a central role in advancing Lawrence’s commitment to holistic student success by partnering with students to navigate the interconnected dimensions of academic achievement, personal growth, major and career exploration, career readiness, and purposeful decision-making throughout their Lawrence experience.

The Student Success Coach provides individualized coaching, course instruction, workshop facilitation, outreach, and case management designed to help students succeed in their academic experience while developing the skills, habits, relationships, professional competencies, and sense of purpose necessary to thrive at Lawrence and beyond. Grounded in academic coaching principles, learning science, and a working knowledge of the Life Design framework, the Student Success Coach partners with students to intentionally design and navigate their college experience.

Through coaching conversations and developmental interventions, the coach helps students build self‑awareness, strengthen learning strategies, engage meaningfully with faculty and campus resources, explore possibilities, connect their academic experiences to personal values and future aspirations, and design and pursue intentional actions that lead to growth, achievement, and future success. Working in partnership with the Career Center and other campus partners, the Student Success Coach helps students connect their liberal arts education to meaningful careers and lives of purpose.

The work of the Student Success Coach reflects Lawrence University’s commitment to supporting the whole student by recognizing that academic achievement, personal development, well‑being, career readiness, belonging, and future direction are deeply interconnected.

Student Success Coach

Appleton

Center for Academic Success

Staff

• Provide individualized student success coaching that empowers students to
• identify their strengths, values, interests, and aspirations;
• clarify goals and priorities;
• make intentional decisions and take meaningful action;
• develop effective learning strategies;
• strengthen motivation, confidence, and accountability; and
• build resilience and self‑awareness; and
• connect their academic experiences to meaningful engagement opportunities and future pathways.
• Partner with students to intentionally navigate their Lawrence experience by integrating academic success, personal growth, well‑being, career readiness, and post‑graduate planning into a cohesive educational journey.
• Guide students in exploring multiple academic, career, and life pathways through a developmental coaching approach emphasizing curiosity, experimentation, reflection, and iterative decision‑making.
• Support students in developing effective college success behaviors, including faculty engagement, strategic help‑seeking, time management, self‑advocacy, reflective practice, and effective use of campus resources.
• Provide proactive outreach, coaching, and developmental support for students experiencing academic difficulty, navigating transitions, or encountering barriers to persistence and success.
• Coach students through the exploration of career pathways, graduate/professional education, and post‑graduate opportunities using guided reflection, life design activities, informational interview planning, and intentional referrals to Career Center programs, alumni, employers, and experiential learning opportunities.
• Help students intentionally connect their liberal arts education to meaningful careers and lives by encouraging engagement in internships, undergraduate research, community‑based learning, leadership, employment, global experiences, and other high‑impact educational practices.

• UNIC 153:
  Designing Your Life After Lawrence, a 3‑unit course that applies design thinking principles to help students connect their Lawrence…