Student Success Hub staff provides holistic academic coaching by working with students to identify their strengths, explore areas of interest, and cocreate actionable plans for success. During academic coaching appointments, students can also utilize personality testing tools that can help to explore strengths and career preferences. Students who are considering different majors/minors/certificates/distinctions, changing colleges/schools, or might be in need of academic interventions can benefit from meeting with an academic coach.
Students enrolled in Dietrich Arts & Sciences and the College of General Studies can also make Academic Coaching appointments via the Study Lab.
Why an academic coach? They can…
- Help you navigate the different academic and support programs at Pitt that might be best for you.
- Explore different majors, minors, opportunities, and career options using tools like Degree Finder and me3. Pitt has a wide variety of undergraduate programs available to students as well as Interdisciplinary Distinctions.
- Get you connected to the wide variety of campus resources and tools for student success.
- Assist you with the process of changing from one college or school to another.
- Deliver personality testing like Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Assessment
- Help to get you back on track if you are struggling academically.
Make an appointment with an academic coach by downloading the Navigate Student mobile application or by searching for Navigate Student through myPitt.
- Select your school: University of Pittsburgh
- You will be asked to sign in with your Pitt username and password and authenticate your login using two-factor authentication
- Click on the purple “Appointments” button at the bottom of the screen
- Click “Schedule an Appointment”
- Using the filters, choose the “Student Success Hub” as the location and “SSH Academic Success Appointment” as the Service
- Choose a date and time that works for you and click the “Schedule” button to confirm
- You will get an appointment confirmation with details about how to connect with the academic coach
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment?
MBTI has several benefits for undergraduate students for academic, professional, and personal growth.
Explore your strengths, communication style, learning methods, and career preferences. MBTI helps with self-awareness, stress management, teamwork, and improving social skills for academic and personal growth.