Julie Fischer-Kinney, Assistant Provost for Student Success and Retention, The Center for Success Coaching now has is a mission statement and focus “ The Center For Success Coaching is to empower UT students to thrive academically, personally and professionally from orientation to graduation through a holistic, student-centered approach” (University of Toledo, 2017). All Success Coaches report to and receive direction from Dr. Julie Fischer-Kinney “ the most basic and ubiquitous way of harmonizing the efforts of individuals, units, or divisions are to designate a boss with formal authority” (Bolman and Deal, p. 51). Another change that occurred that Fall was that besides becoming our own center, Success Coaches no longer advised students as two advisors were hired that now take care of our undecided students preparing these students for their transitions to the academic colleges of their majors. Each Success Coach is assigned to an academic college or colleges or set of students, for example, my specialization is working with Student-Athletes, Nursing, and The College of Health and Human Services direct from High School …show more content…
We set up regular meetings with students who connect with us and a coach has to be able to work with students with a wide variety of issues ranging from academic, to personal or financial. This means that a Success Coach must have the ability to communicate with faculty, advisors, or any office for the benefit of our students. Therefore a Success Coach Needs to be a collaborator or what Bollman and Deal describe a role coordinator, “These individuals or groups are boundary-spanners with diplomatic status who are artful in dealing across specialized turfs….spending much of the day pulling together functions essential to a prodcuts success” (Bolman and Deal, p. 55) or in other words student