Advisement, Success Coaching and ADA Accessibility Services

Advisement

During the enrollment process, students choose a program planner detailing the sequence of the courses they will take. Students wishing to explore changing their program planner work with the Student Services after they have enrolled. This might include moving courses from one quarter to another or changing the pace at which they move through their program.

Students are also assigned an Academic Advisor or a Mentor. They provide guidance around professional development, career exploration, and professional trends in the different professions.

Success Coaching and Academic Supports

The transformational learning process is the guiding star of your journey at Southwestern College. At times, students need a more support than an advisor can provide as they move through SWC’s transformational and academically rigorous curriculum. Coaching can assist you in identifying action steps to support your academic and professional success, as well as navigating conflict and the transformational process as a whole. In addition, if you need reading, writing, time-management, or study skills support, we can connect you to resources to boost your academic and learning–to–learn skills. Please contact Student & Career Services for any type of support and/or coaching.

ADA Accessibility Services

Southwestern College is committed to making its programs accessible to all students. The College will make reasonable accommodations to classroom and scheduling procedures and provide necessary auxiliary aids to accommodate students with documented disabilities.

You can request accommodation at any time during your enrollment, although we recommend you make your request when you first register for classes. We find students who qualified for accommodations in their previous educational journey, or who are just now receiving an official diagnosis, highly benefit from accommodations while pursuing their graduate education at SWC. Requesting accommodations early allows us to provide you with the support you need to be successful at SWC.

Please Contact the Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs to inquire about any of our student support services.

Virginia Padilla Vigil

(505) 467-6821

vpvigil@swc.edu

"Southwestern College has been an amazing part of my journey. This education endeavor as an art therapist has been a series of miracles for me. I've seen such a shift in myself. It's been a beautiful experience."

Crystal Hoffman, Graduate

"I'm honored to be applying myself in a clinical environment and my experience at Southwestern enabled me to not only work as an art therapist but to facilitate mindfulness groups. A dream within a dream job I had not even fathomed."

Anna Mills, Graduate

"My experience at Southwestern has been truly transformational. From the lessons learned in Consciousness class to my light figure project and vision quest. The impact on me and on my soul has been absolutely profound."

Stephanie Albury. Graduate 2012

"I'm thankful for everyone at Southwestern College...The deeper sense of myself has been seen, heard, honored and found. I'm so grateful to be able to share it with other people."

Cynthia Alexis, Graduate

"I chose to go back to school for my 50th birthday. Little did I know I would be re-birthed... This is sacred work for me. May the work that we do be of service and benefit to all."

Eliza Buck, Graduate

"This is the place that empowered me to do things the way that I do them, the way I'm good at doing them. I've come to surmise that to be an art therapist; to me means being an artist at therapy so the therapy is the art. The creative engagement with another, with each other, that is the art. "

Renee Borsberry, from Art Therapy Capstone Presentation

"The New Earth Institute of Southwestern College offers an array of educational and transformational opportunities to the community. It has been a rich and rewarding experience, enabling the college to grow and expand our mission of transforming consciousness through education. True education engages and awakens all parts of one’s being, allowing for the integration of mind, body and spirit. It cultivates reverence for life and nurtures us in the journey of the soul.”

Katherine Ninos, Vice President

"It has been an extremely amazing journey; the past two years. There has been a lot of pain, a lot of joy and a lot of learning. I think the thing I've learned the most about this experience is trusting the process."

Denise Moore, Graduate

"I feel so much gratitude for being part of this caring, supporting, reflective, soulful community."

Linnea Knoespel, Graduate

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