Our Approach
OBJECTIVE: to provide new and returning college students with a designated peer-mentor to ease acclimation to college-life, academically, socially, and emotionally.
“I love helping my students make that next exciting, brave, step to higher education when I work with them through my sister company, Gateway Admissions. The college admissions process, though arduous and substantial, is one that we both enjoy as we parse out assignments, discuss a lot, and build a relationship of mutual respect and collegiality. At the end there is a feeling of great accomplishment, success, and pride.
When the time came for some of my students to embark on that first year or return to campus, despite the supports I knew we had secured, I felt they would benefit from just a little more. Nothing too aggressive. Nothing too reminiscent of the interactions they may have had with adults throughout their lives but something fun, more peer-mentorship based and something more focused on the social and emotional transition to campus. This is the thinking that launched Campus Colleagues and of which I am so excited today.” ~ Diana Jones, MA, M.Ed. (President / Founder)
Our Counselors:
Get to know you and your young adult
Review a relevant questionnaire provided by Campus Colleagues and completed by the family and student
Identify good-fit ‘colleague’ candidates
Evaluate candidates through resume review, interview, and references
Make introductions to family; provide copies of each candidate's credentials
Help facilitate arrangement between family and colleague
Not attending college but would benefit from this type of partnership? Please visit our Community Colleagues page to learn more.
Find out more about our EXPERTISE
Additional Services:
Productivity Coaching
Kate Litterer
MFA, PhD
Dr. Kate Litterer is a Productivity Coach, author of Tend to It: A Holistic Guide to Intentional Productivity, and an educator who holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing and a PhD degree in Rhetoric and Composition. For over a decade, she taught college-level courses, making her intimately familiar with how college students approach their academic process and where pitfalls can arise.
Dr. Litterer believes in a strengths-based approach, which means she customizes her coaching sessions to fit each individual’s talents and goals instead of prescribing a "one-size-fits-all" approach to productivity. She is committed to learning each student’s objectives, obstacles, and aptitudes and developing an individualized productivity plan that will set a student up for personal and academic success. Young adults find Dr. Litterer very relatable due to her encouraging approach, making her support effective and invaluable.
As a Productivity Coach, Dr. Litterer guides Campus Colleagues students to:
Increase awareness of their strengths and develop a toolbox of executive functioning skills
Develop academic schedules and plans for completing work on time
Foster inner strength and self-confidence as agents in their own education
Generate actionable methods for achieving short-term and long-term goals without feeling overwhelmed
Prioritize important tasks to complete responsibilities with intention
Build long-lasting habits for organization and time management
Increase focus and attention during productivity, writing, and research sessions
Have the self-awareness to recognize when they need support and where to find it
Read Dr. Kate Litterer’s TESTIMONIALS