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Student Success Specialists
Coaching You To Graduation
As Student Success Specialists, we help all TSU students navigate college life. We know when and how to refer you to various offices based on your needs and goals. You can meet one-on-one with a specialist to improve your college experience! Your coach will provide tailored coaching sessions to help you, push you to improve, and ensure you stay accountable. We customize the topics to suit your needs. These may include goal setting, time management, organization, study skills, and stress management.
About Us
Our academic coaches emphasize empowerment, building a holistic monitoring strategy to keep undergraduate students engaged and on degree track each semester. The coaches will also follow and monitor students based on their unique educational needs through their degree completion process.
Our Mission & Values
Tennessee State University, through its legacy as an HBCU and land grant institution, transforms lives, prepares a diverse population of leaders, and contributes to economic and community development by providing affordable and accessible educational programs at various degree levels promoting academic excellence through scholarly inquiry, teaching, research, lifelong learning, and public service.
The Personal Benefits of Coaching
- Guide students as lifelong learners
- Enhance the importance of understanding the academic curriculum and meeting deadline dates.
- Learn navigation skills for success using EAB, technology and eLearn
- Boost self-confidence and communication skills
Student Testimony
“The programs are amazing, and I was able to get all my questions answered.”
K. Jones, Commercial Music Major
| Student Success Specialist Directory | |
| Staff Member & Contact Information | College Served |
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Tamika Williams |
Director of Student Success |
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Justin Butler |
Cardio-Respiratory Care, Dental Hygiene, Chemistry, Music, and Public Health (Terrance Felker serves Public Health) |
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James Driscoll |
Human Performance and Sports Science (HPSS), Health Sciences (Terrance Felker also serves Health Science last name: G-Z) and Nursing (Armeisha McDonald also serves Nursing) |
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Terrance Felker |
Communication, Biology (Angie Jefferson also serves Biology last name: M-Z), Health Sciences (James Driscoll also serves Health Sciences last name: A-F) and Public Health (Supporting Justin Butler with students who want to concentrate in Dental Hygiene with Public Health major) |
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Brendia Smith |
Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, and Psychology (Ariel Lowe serves Psychology students with last name: P-Z) |
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Nicholas Horton |
Business Administration (Ariel Lowe also serves Business Administration – Students with last name: U-Z) |
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Angie Jefferson |
Art, Art and Sciences, Biology (Terrance Felker also serves Biology students with last name: A-L), Math, Mathematical Sciences, Professional Studies, and Family & Consumer Sciences (Tina Thomas also serves FCS) |
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Ariel Lowe |
Business Information Systems, Economics & Finance, Business Administration (Nicholas Horton serves Business Administration last name: A-T) and Psychology (Brendia Smith serves Psychology last name: A-O) |
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Armeisha McDonald |
Nursing (James Driscoll also serves Nursing) |
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U.Monique Robinson, EdD |
Aeronautical and Industrial Tech (AIT), Applied and Industrial Tech (AIT), Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering |
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Tina Thomas, EdD |
Accounting, Healthcare Administration and Planning (HCAP), and Health Information Management (HIM), Computer Science and Family & Consumer Science (Angie Jefferson serves as primary advisor FCS) |
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Andrae Perry |
Criminal Justice, Interdisciplinary Studies, History, English and Political Science |
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Maya Outlaw |
Agricultural Sciences, Urban Studies, Social Work, Sociology and Non-Degree Undergraduate (Goal: to capture any students prior to pre-advisement in order for them to declare a major within the 1st semester) |