Miscellaneous
The Study Plan Coordinator (SPC) Program started at MU 11 years ago when founder and organizer Yve Solbrekken found her workload was getting too heavy. Solbrekken helped students with time management and study practices. As more and more students began signing up to work with her, she realized there was a pattern in students’ needs. She then hired student tutors to take over the job and called them SPCs. Solbrekken didn’t realize SPCs would be so in demand. “Academic coaching is a big catchphrase right now in the United States,” Solbrekken said. “The SPC program is a form of academic coaching that’s just really efficient, really economical.” In order to keep the bills low, Solbrekken hires students, who are less expensive than professional tutors. But students actually have a leg-up over possible professional tutors. “[Students] are more impacted by what their peers do than by what some older adult is telling them would be good or not to do,” Solbrekken said. The student SPCs, cost