Enjoy a personal success coach who's here to support you

When we say your success is our number one priority, we mean it. That's why we assign a success coach to you before you even start your first Ivy Bridge class.

Your coach will take the time to know you—your aspirations, your strengths, your challenges—to help ensure that you receive the support you need to achieve your personal and academic goals.

At Ivy Bridge, we recognize that making the transition to college can be a major life change. Some of our students have just graduated from high school and are living at home. Others are already juggling a full-time job and their own parenting obligations. Whatever your situation, you'll find your success coach a valuable resource as you adjust to college life on your own terms.

What to expect from your success coach.

Throughout your Ivy Bridge experience, your success coach will be in regular contact with you via phone, email, instant messenger and Facebook. Your coach will advise you on what courses to take, help you register for classes, discuss assignments and concerns, and help you chart a course for your future.

As with everything else at Ivy Bridge, success coaching is personalized, flexible, and designed to work around your schedule. Your initial meetings with your coach will focus on identifying personal and professional goals. Once those goals are established, subsequent meetings with your coach will review your progress and collaboratively set agendas for each week of study.

Agenda items will focus on specific challenges you may be encountering as a student as well as ways to address them, including tips for improving time management, presentation and test-taking skills, career planning, and personal finances and budgeting.

"I look forward to my weekly chats [with my coach] about school, life, and goals for the week. It's a great way to take a few minutes to reflect, plan, and pose questions to someone who's been there. Even after a few short weeks I know that with her help I will make it to my ultimate goal, having that degree in my hand!"

—Ivy Bridge student Lorie Kelbley on success coach, Maria Murrietta