Coaching versus tutoring
A tutor helps you understand organic chemistry. A coach helps you actually sit down and study it — build a weekly plan, break a project into steps, notice what derails you, and adjust. Coaches don't know your course content; they know how to get work done.
Who it helps
Students in a slump, students who did fine in high school without studying and are now stuck, students juggling a job and a full load, and strong students who want to work less for the same result. Sessions are confidential and don't go on any record.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
Meet: Weekly or biweekly, 30–45 minutes, free. Works on: Planning, procrastination, reading and note strategy, exam prep, motivation, follow-through. Book: Through the Student Success Center; open to any student, not just those on probation. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.