Join the Coyotes Achieve Program and Request a Coach!
2024-2025 Academic Year
All students are welcome to the Coyotes Achieve space located in SMSU South, room 220. If you would like to request an Academic Coach to support your journey at CSUSB, please fill out the Request a Coach form and we will match you with an assigned Academic Coach for the academic year.
Who Should Join?
Students entering CSUSB as incoming first-time freshman are encouraged to join Coyotes Achieve. We aim to support students in their transition from high school to college, especially those who are the first in their families to attend college. We love first-generation college students!
Why Join?
Students who participate in Coyotes Achieve will work with an Academic Coach to grow academically and increase their sense of empowerment, understanding of college life and responsibilities, and sense of belonging with the CSUSB campus!
What is an Academic Coach?
An Academic Coach provides support to students with their academic journey by setting academic and personal goals and assisting them with meeting those goals! Students are assigned and Academic Coach for their first year to guide them throughout their college experience.
“Being an Academic Coach means serving as a professional friend!” – Brenda Sanchez, Academic Coach
Benefits of an Academic Coach:
Students receive great benefits from participating in the Coyotes Achieve program including a certificate of completion to add to a resume and regular opportunity drawings for free CSUSB swag items!
- Create meaningful relationships with peer Academic Coaches
- Regular 1:1 meetings
- Create and maintain personal academic goals
- Access to peer support
- Build community with other first-generation students
- Overall academic support