Individual Consultations

Where tutoring and coaching appointments help students learn to master specific course material, individual consultations are designed to provide support with the many other factors that contribute to academic success, including time management, metacognitive study strategies, test taking, and more. 

Academic Success Plan
Whether you’re just starting your Columbia journey or resetting at the start of a new semester, planning for success is key.  Meet with a member of the ARC team to develop a tailored academic success plan matching research-based study strategies and learning resources to your schedule of classes and academic plans. 

Study Skills
The ARC team has worked hard to become familiar with the ins and outs of how the brain learns and what strategies will be most useful in working with your brain to master course material.  Come meet with a member of the team to talk through the types of assessments you are facing this semester and which metacognitive strategies will be most useful to you.

Test Taking
Sometimes the hardest part of an exam is not the content but the format.  The ARC team is here to help you learn to approach midterms and finals thoughtfully, strategically, and mindfully.  Come talk with us about the most common types of questions you will face, and the most effective strategies for calming nerves, keeping on pace, and more.

Time Management
Successful time management is about more than just getting everything done.  The ARC team is here to help support you in balancing competing priorities, strategically approaching a challenging course load, keeping track of deadlines, maximizing your efficiency, and making time for wellness. 

Triage
Not every semester goes according to plan, and not every challenge can be easily named and overcome.  That’s okay.  Come meet with a member of the ARC team to talk about what’s going on and what resources might be useful. We can't guarantee a silver-bullet solution to every problem, but we can help you better understand what's happening and identify a few strategies that might help get you back on track.

Individual consultations may be scheduled through the Columbia GS Student Success Portal.