Unit Spotlight
Mane Connect
Mane Connect is a new success-coaching program offered to a select group of first-year
students. Under the direction of Enrollment Management, Mane Connect provides personal,
educational, academic and career guidance to freshmen through regularly scheduled,
individualized appointments. The goal of success coaching is to help each student achieve their
full potential and make the most of their first year at ODU.
Mane Connect Success coaches assist students with connecting them to campus resources,
constructing action plans, developing appropriate time management techniques, and exercising
responsible decision making skills.
“…coaching is an interactive process that focuses on the personal relationship created between
the student and the coach. The coach challenges the student to think about his or her personal
and/or professional goals in order to relate them to his or her academic/educational goals…”
-National Academic Advising Association, 2013
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