About Us - COPE
COPE Student Support Services (SSS) offers inclusive services to promote retention, graduation, and transfer to four-year institutions. Criteria for admission into this program is that a student be either first generation (neither parent graduated from a 4-year university), meet income guidelines, or have a documented phyiscal or hidden disability (i.e., learning disabilities, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder).
Interested in applying?
- Click here for our NEW updated application, which you can complete on the computer and return to us at copeoffice@vinu.edu
The program is based on a person-centered-planning model that includes:
- academic support
- advising assistance with course selection
- personal counseling
- tutoring
- mentoring
- transfer assistance and campus visits to four-year institutions
- career counseling
- financial literacy
- financial aid assistance with FAFSA, scholarships, etc.
COPE SSS Professional Advisory Board
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Candace Joles – Director, COPE Student Support Services
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Kendra Clauser – Assistant Professor, Performing Arts Center
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Hope Clausman – Professor, Psychology
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Bill Gollmitzer – Assistant Professor, Law and Safety
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Guillaume Jaubert - Assistant Professor, Mathematics
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Ed King – Instructor, Fire Science
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Cheryl Litherland – Coordinator, Clark Hall
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Danny Ralston - Director, Learning Support Services
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Kelly Renteria-Evans – Director, ETS
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Phyllis Richardson – Associate Professor, Hospitality
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Ashton Singleton - Recruiter / Advisor Technology
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Lisa Spivey - Director, Upward Bound
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Jana Vieck – Dean, College of Health Science and Human Performance
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Nan Wagner – Student Support Facilitator, COPE SSS
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Stan Werene - Director, Financial Aid