Disability Resources
University Coaching and Academic Mentoring (U-CAM)
Looking for new ways to succeed in college and support while you learn those new strategies? Looking for support in navigating the many competing priorities of a student? Looking for a program that gives students with learning disabilities the tools to succeed? Looking for a university that offers more than accommodations? Then you are looking for U-CAM.
What is U-CAM?
U-CAM is a comprehensive, fee-for-services support program for students experiencing academic challenges. We know that, for a variety of reasons, some students need a coach to help them reach their academic best. Designed for students with executive function challenges, ADD, and other learning disabilities, U-CAM promotes self-advocacy, autonomy, and academic achievement. Our coaches work with individual students in weekly coaching sessions and are focused completely on students learning to reach their academic goals.
Who benefits from U-CAM?
Students who have experienced challenges with planning, follow-through, breaking big projects into manageable tasks, determining what's important to study and how to do it - whether or not you have a documented learning disability.How does U-CAM work?
- Get going with a pre-advising and intake session with an academic coach
- Incoming first-year students: set up for success with a full week of pre-session before the Fall term starts in a two-credit course
- Work with an academic coach to set term goals (Term Success Plan)
- Check progress in weekly coaching sessions
- Develop individualized skills and strategies to maximize academic success through specific U-CAM workshops
What are the benefits of weekly coaching sessions?
- Setting and meeting academic goals
- Time management and organization
- Tracking due dates and completing assignments
- Writing skills development
- Self-advocacy
- Developing effective study skills
Why U-CAM?
Students who made frequent use of U-CAM resources (10 meetings or more) saw their GPA increase an average of .88 points from winter to spring term, and an average of 1.12 points from fall to spring term.
“I love my coach, she was super supportive and I really benefitted from my meetings with her this term.”
“Great program!”
“Very effective and helpful!”
“I’d have really gone off the deep end without your support!”
“My husband and I really believe that if our son would have had his coach or a clone of her while he was at his previous college that more progress would have been made. She is so positive in her efforts and support of us and our son, plus she is creative in her ideas and plans for him. She follows through. That is a beautiful thing in our world of parents with a LD son. ”