Coaching versus advising
A one-off advising appointment answers a specific question — fix this résumé, prep this interview. Coaching is a structured series for a bigger question: what do I want next, and how do I get there. You leave each session with a concrete action and check in on it at the next.
Distinct from mentoring
The mentor network pairs you with a volunteer in your field for informal guidance. Coaching is with a trained career professional and is about your process, not their industry. Many alumni use both.
In and around Porter Falls
The UW–Porter Falls Foundation shares the Depot with admissions, which is deliberate: the people who fund scholarships and the students who receive them use the same front door. Most gifts to Porter are small, local and recurring.
The practical details
Format: A series of sessions with a career coach, not a single appointment — goal-setting, then accountability. Good for: Changing fields, moving into management, re-entering after a gap, or deciding whether to go back to school. Cost: Free for a set number of sessions per year; a sliding-scale fee for additional depth. 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 UW–Porter Falls Foundation & Alumni Relations (Welcome Center at the Depot). Call (715) 555–0280 or email foundation@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.