For Students
Student Success Advocates
Welcome to Student Success Advocacy! Success Advocates are here to support you with personalized care and resources from your first day at USF to graduation.
Success Advocates work individually with undergraduate students who may be facing barriers and review their available options. We collaborate with academic departments, colleges, and university personnel when working with students, so they may receive the most robust support.
1st and 2nd Year Advocate
Emily focuses on your degree progression by serving our first and second year students.
Marketa Whitehead
Upper-Level Advocate
Marketa focuses on your degree completion by serving our third and fourth year students.
Alex Muller
Transfer Advocate
Alex focuses on supporting all transfer students with their academic and degree completion goals.
Services provided by Student Success Advocates include:
- Proactive student outreach to offer academic support and address goals of persistence, progression, and timely completion of degree
- Response to individual student inquiries and/or referrals from faculty and staff
- Individual student appointments for academic success and guidance navigating policies
and procedures
- Develop semester goals
- Time management
- Personal motivation
- Academic Success Plans tailored to student need
- Coordinated care to connect students to campus resources and services
Faculty and Staff: Make a Referral!