Student Success Specialists
What we do.
- Student Success Specialists are an invaluable resource to help you succeed that are located at each campus. They can answer your questions, be an advocate, and help you find needed services on campus and in the community.
How can we connect you.
- Connect you with Financial Aid: Navigating the financial aid process to address financial need.
- Connect you with Student Accessibility Services (SAS): Supports students with academic disability accommodations.
- Connect you with Career Center: Career guidance, resume building, and interview skills.
- Connect you to Counseling: Academic advising, personal advising, and crisis intervention.
How we can help.
- Maintain contact with students in order to enhance academic success and increase retention/graduation rates.
- Meet with students in requested one-on-one sessions in order to increase motivation, encourage achievement, monitor academic success and assess student’s ability to persist to the next semester/academic year.
- Browse for courses to build schedule and other Cuyahoga Community College processes.
- Provide immediate (24-48 hour) follow-up on all early alert referrals, directly allowing students to the appropriate resources available to help ensure their success.
- Referral to community resources as needed.
Commonly Utilized Virtual Student Resources:
- Connect to Webex from your computer: Handout about connecting to a Webex to join a virtual lecture or class meeting from your computer.
- Connect to Webex from your mobile device: Handout about connecting to a Webex to join a virtual lecture or class meeting from your smartphone or mobile device.
For additional resources, including 24/7 Pear Deck Tutoring, Degree Works, Blackboard and much more, log in to my Tri-C space and navigate to the Student tab, located on the left side of the page. As always, please feel free to contact a Student Success Specialist for additional support.
Your Student Success Specialists
Students are assigned to Student Success Specialists according to the first letter of their last name.
Hillary Leonard
216-987-2298
hillary.leonard@tri-c.edu
ESS 1101
All Eastern Campus Students
Verita Bell
216-987-4008
verita.bell@tri-c.edu
MSS G15
Metro Campus Students Last Names A-M
Untaya Miller
216-987-2016
untaya.miller@tri-c.edu
MSS G15
Metro Campus Students Last Name N-Z
Angie Csepi
216-987-5147
angie.csepi@tri-c.edu
WSS G100B
Western Campus Students Last Names A-M
Zachary Sours
216-987-5675
zachary.sours@tri-c.edu
WSS G100
Western Campus Students Last Names N-Z
Katie Ponsart
216-987-3261
katie.ponsart@tri-c.edu
SHCS 141 O
All Westshore Campus Students