The Academic Success Coaching program offers a holistic view of student success and academic intervention. The Academic Success Coach is a model for effective organization, time-management, study skills, and executive functioning. ASC’s are also responsible for imparting a feeling of ownership and a sense of agency over one’s academic journey, so that the client is better equipped to navigate their university experience. The Academic Success Coaching program is positioned in a way that can brings all of the components of the Academic Resource Center together in a comprehensive way.

While Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction focus on content-specific obstacles, and how best to navigate them, the Academic Success Coach is there to help the student identify the obstacles in the first place. The role compliments yet differs from their Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction counterparts in that it offers a more wrap-around support system for students focusing on the determination and solutions to academic obstacles. 

Appointments are available in person or virtually. With questions, please contact the Assistant Director of the Academic Resource Center at 714-966-5452, email academicsuccess@vanguard.edu, or visit the Academic Resource Center located in Smith 110.  

To request a coach, fill out our Academic Success Coach request form.

The Office of Disability Services seeks to cultivate an inclusive and accessible university campus through the removal of environmental barriers. Students with a temporary or permanent disability (which may include but are not limited to attention-related, learning, mental health, vision, hearing, physical, or other health impairments) who are in need of accommodations are encouraged to contact the Office of Disability Services.

GOALS

• To provide a safe, comfortable, and caring place of contact and support for students with disabilities.
• To understand the nature of the student’s disability and to implement appropriate accommodations that address the student’s limitations.
• To treat persons with disabilities with dignity and respect, and to view disability issues as matters of diversity.
• To facilitate ongoing and reasonable improvements in areas of structural access, assistive technology, accommodation availability, community education, and administrative advocacy.

As a Living Well initiative Samson’s Career Pop-Up Closet provides you with professional attire and resources such as headshots for your interviews, career fairs, and/or networking events. In collaboration with Career Services, they have joined forces to ensure students make a great and competitive first impression. If you are you in need of professional clothing, schedule your Career Closet appointment and get free business attire by logging into Vanguard Handshake and completing a Career Services appointment request for the Career Closet.

The Living Well Community Resource Center intends to provide students with adequate support and supplies in all areas that may hinder their academic success and or well-being. We aim to ensure each student is equipped with the proper resources in order to succeed academically, by eliminating all forms of insecurities and instilling hope to those in need.

Our goal is to lend a helping hand to VU community members who need food and hygiene products, clothing, books, and laptops. We want to ensure a worry-free school year by coming together as a community to eliminate food and housing insecurity by accommodating each other’s needs.

Have you heard the phrase, “Supplemental Instruction” (or “SI”) being used and you’re not sure what it is? Have you overheard students discussing topics from classes outside of class time? THAT is the main idea behind Supplemental Instruction. 

SI is a time set aside for students to get together outside of class and discuss the ideas and concepts that faculty present in class. It is facilitated by a student who has previously taken the class and achieved success. During the SI session, the SI leader encourages interaction among students about the topics and concepts that faculty have discussed during class. Using a variety of innovative group study techniques, the SI Leader facilitates conversations about the course subject matter. Attendance is voluntary and anonymous (faculty are not notified about who attends so as not to affect grading).

Fall 2022 SI Schedule:

We have SI available for 21 of our Math and Science courses. Why just those courses? Because SI takes the stigma off students and/or professors and puts it on the traditionally difficult courses, of which math and science courses have been shown to be nationally. What about other subject areas? For now, we are focusing on courses with the highest percentage of students who earn Ds, Fs, or Withdraw from the course (aka, the DFW Rate).with the intention of including other courses in the future.

Grade improvement data from the past five semesters since the program launched reveal that students who attend SI earn from .5 to as much as 2 letter grades higher than students who do not attend, and the DFW rates of students who do not attend SI is at least twice as high as those who do attend. Bringing up students’ GPAs and lower the DFW Rates leads to higher retention and graduation rates!

Appointments are available in person or virtually.

The Tutorial Center offers a unique approach to academic intervention in that they are programs for the students, of the students, and by the students. They are maintained by the Academic Success Coordinator whose leadership and scholarship are well-established in the Vanguard community. Tutoring services are provided by Vanguard students who have mastered their material and have shown exemplary ability to facilitate learning for their peers.

The Strengths of the centers are flexed in the philosophy and operation of them. Students are viewed as one-of-a-kind learners with unique learning styles and individual needs. Center operation embraces the positive aspects of tutorial assistance. Rather than students feeling the stigma of needing academic assistance, they are encouraged to use the tutorial services in order to foster success in a class from the onset.

Two hours of tutoring per week is provided at no cost to the student. Appointments available in person or virtually.

With questions, please contact the Assistant Director of the Academic Resource Center at 714-966-5452, or email academicsuccess@vanguard.edu, or visit the Academic Resource Center located in Smith 110.  

Fill out a Tutorial Request Form here.

The Vanguard Writing Center is committed to helping undergraduate and graduate student writers across the curriculum. Students from any major may bring writing projects (from shorter expository essays to longer research papers) to a Writing Center appointment and receive informed, thorough feedback from a peer consultant, with special attention given to the author’s concerns and the parameters of the specific assignment. The Writing Center is committed to assisting students from all disciplines in a collaborative, Christ-centered environment, and we value students’ learning differences and diverse voices. We can help students at any stage of the writing process, including: organizing notes, developing outlines, revising thesis statements, improving organization, or assisting with final editing. Click here to login and see more information and resources.

Appointments are available in person or virtually.

Please note: The Writing Center is not a proofreading service. Our aim is to develop stronger critical writers.

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Open Monday - Friday 10 am - 5 pm

Or book an appointment online here.