Student Success Center
Grounded in a strengths perspective and mattering framework, the Student Success Center fosters an inclusive, welcoming environment that promotes connection to comprehensive resources and collaborative coaching relationships to support students’ success and persistence to graduation. By helping mitigate barriers to persistence and achievement, the SSC seeks to empower students’ self-efficacy as they establish and pursue their personal, academic, and professional goals.
The Student Success Center is located just north of the Dining Commons on the walkway toward Davidian and Chan Shun Halls.
Meet the Team

Kharolynn Pascual Smith
Director

Ellen Balk-Dick
Academic Mentor
Working with individual students to help discover their path to success at PUC is an exciting challenge for me. I interact with student athletes in the classroom, at the SSC and at their Pioneer games. Go Pioneers!

Tania Duncan
Academic Coach
The students I’ve mentored at the SSC have amazed me with their intelligence and creativity. It is incredibly rewarding to work with seniors wrapping up remaining classes and requirements for graduation. Many have become forever friends.

Gabriel Hidalgo
Tutoring Coordinator
I am passionate about cultivating students' natural love for learning. The more we learn about the universe, the more we will understand love and our place in the community.