Achieving the Promise Academy
Achieve Your Academic Goals
The Achieving the Promise Academy is MC’s academic coaching program, created to ensure every student has the assistance, opportunities, and tools needed to succeed in college. No matter where you are on your academic journey, our Academic Coaches can help you build on your strengths and target areas for improvement so you can excel academically and achieve your full potential.
Participating in academic coaching has been shown to help students build their confidence, pass their classes, improve their grades, save money, and stay on track to graduate or transfer on time—and it's free and open to any student registered for credit and workforce development courses at MC.
Get an Academic Coach
Coaching for Program Success
*Coming soon to Montgomery College*
Program academic coaches help students connect more deeply to the goals of their chosen academic program, ensuring success until you complete your program requirements.
Coaching for College Success
Personal academic coaches can help you create a personalized academic success plan and will meet with you weekly to help you succeed. They’ll be your coach until you graduate or transfer and can help you stay motivated to achieve your long-term goals.
Learn More about Personal Academic CoachingDrop-in Coaching
In these one-time virtual coaching sessions, an Academic Coach can help you think about changes you want to make and explore specific academic success strategies, like time management, goal setting, study skills, and more.
Learn More about Drop-in Academic CoachingWhat is academic coaching? How is working with an academic coach different from working with a mentor, tutor, or instructor? And how can coaches help you succeed here at MC and beyond?
Struggling and want to do better? Doing well and want to stay on track? Anyone can benefit from working with an academic coach.
Get Engaged in Your Academics
ATPA Student learning community
The ATPA Student Learning Community offers several opportunities to connect with other MC students, improve your academic skills and habits, and engage in MC's rich academic life, including our annual student retreat, conferences, speaker series, and end-of-year celebration.
ATPA's Student Learning Community is on summer break and will return for the Fall 2025 semester.