Academic Skills Resources
Academic Coaching
We offer Academic Coaching for both undergraduate and graduate students. Academic Coaching provides you with a "personal trainer” who can observe your strategies and techniques, suggest changes to your approach, and provide encouragement as you implement new ways of learning. Our professional Academic Coaches hold advanced degrees and bring a diversity of academic, professional, and personal experience to their roles. Our peer Academic Coaches are mid-to-late stage graduate or professional students who are familiar with the academic challenges at Stanford. Meet our Academic Coaches.
Academic Coaches meet with both undergraduate and graduate students and help you tackle common challenges like:
- Procrastination
- Test preparation & anxiety
- Thesis & dissertation writing
- Time management
- Reading & note-taking
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Peer Learning Consultants
Peer Learning Consultants are undergraduate and graduate students who work with community centers, residences, and academic departments across campus to help other students develop effective learning strategies. Our learning consultants offer one-on-one academic coaching, workshops, consultations, and academic programming to address a variety of academic skills.
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Tips and Tools
Reaching your academic potential can be challenging, but learning effective habits can help you get there. We have plenty of tips and tools to help you make the most of your time and effort.
Find study tips and tools on:
- Time Management [weekly schedule]
- Note-Taking
- Reading
- Test preparation & anxiety
- Course-specific strategies
- General study skills
Check out all of our Study Tips and Tools
Academic Skills Self-Assessment
The study habits that helped get you here are not necessarily the ones that will help sustain you, and identifying the additional skills you need is not always an intuitive process.
The Academic Skills Self-Assessment is intended to provide new techniques and approaches to try, as well as offer encouragement and reinforcement for the strategies you are already using. After you select which topics you want to explore, the inventory generates comments that are tailored to your responses. It takes about 5-15 minutes to complete.