Product Description
by Elizabeth M. H. Coghill (Author), Jeffrey G. Coghill (Author)
The growing population of neurodiverse college students prompts new approaches to support their success and change traditional student services and collegiate experiences. Chapters cover tutoring, learning supports, academic coaching and advising, career services, residential living, and classroom experiences that impact and assist these students.
Author Biography
Elizabeth Coghill has served as the inaugural director of the Pirate Academic Success Center at East Carolina University for the past eleven years. An experienced higher education administrator, her research and practice interests focus on the academic and social success of marginalized student populations: neurodiverse learners, students of color, first generation, economically disadvantaged, and military affiliated students. Dedicated to the academic achievement of collegiate students, she is an early adopter of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) techniques imbedded within a learning center. She has over 25 years of experience in higher education in learner support services, academic advising, registrar, systems training, career development, and admissions. Jeffrey Coghill is outreach librarian and director of Eastern AHEC Library Services since 2009 at Laupus Library at East Carolina University. From 2001-2009, he was collection development librarian at Laupus. As the outreach librarian, C helps healthcare professionals find the best information so they can help their patients get better.
