Click Here to Schedule with Lindsey Morgan

Lindsey has been advising students for 20 years in various roles including financial aid, multicultural affairs, student life, veteran affairs, and others. Lindsey has an MBA and finds advising students aligns with her strengths of empathy and future thinking.

Lindsey is a self-described foodie who loves finding new restaurants and foods to try out and enjoy. Her favorite type of food is Indian, but she has a weakness for a good vegan blueberry lemon scone.

What are your best tips for success?

1. Ask questions. You're in school to learn, so don't be afraid to do just that! Asking for help—from a professor, a tutor, or your friends—is a surefire way to make sure you truly understand the material.
2. Get Organized. Making a plan for what you're going to do and when you're going to do it will make sure you're always ahead of the curve - literally.

What inspires you?
“In a world where you can be anything, BE KIND.” Treat others the way you wish to be treated; you never know the IMPACT your KINDNESS may have on another individual.

Any other information you have you’d like to share?
The Cookie Monster has a real name. It's Sid.

I am the Director of Education programs and advise all Chatt State students who want to become teachers. I teach education classes and also supervise the American Sign Language and  Physical Education programs. I am the happy grandmother of 4 and enjoy time spent out on the river with my husband, Jim, and our dog, Abbey. As a former English teacher, I love to read and write. I look forward to getting to know you!

Advising those in the following programs:

• AST Elementary Education TTP K-5 
• AS TTP Special Education 
• AST TTP all Secondary Education 

Mrs. Henson-Brooks is the Program Director of the Early Childhood Education Program and has been at Chattanooga State since 2010. She studied Psychology and Sociology at Samford University and has a Master’s Degree in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia. Mrs. HB teaches in and manages the CDA-prep, Technical Certificate, and applied and transfer associate degree programs in Early Childhood. She advises those interested in working with young children and their families, both in and out of early childhood and child care classrooms.

Advising those in the following programs:

• ECED Technical Certificate (TCEC)
• AAS Early Childhood Degree (ECED-NON)
• AS TTP Family & Consumer Sciences
• AST Early Childhood TTP PreK-3
• AST Elementary Education TTP K-5

What are your best tips for success?

You define your own success here! Things may not go as you originally planned or hoped, but all forward movement is progress. The professors and advisors are here for YOU. We want you to find the best career pathway and program fit and help you maximize your learning. Ask for help.

What’s something you enjoy in your spare time?

The woods are my happy place, especially on a mountain with my son and husband. If I can’t get there, our kitties and dogs always make me laugh.

What’s something that inspires you?

My students inspire me every single day. Early Childhood Educators are some of the most amazing people I’ve met. So many have overcome challenging situations and come to college after becoming parents themselves. ECE student accomplishments and passion for the field make my work fulfilling!

Click Here to Schedule with Tiffany Scruggs

Tiffany has been advising for 12 years at ChattState. She started as a general advisor and has been advising for engineering and computer science since 2015. She also teaches college success.
Tiffany is a first-generation college student and amazing mother of three. When she has SOME spare time, she enjoys watching Law & Order SVU.  She also loves basketball and going to concerts. She says it’s hard to have a favorite team because the players change teams often, but her favorite player is KD (Kevin Durant).

What are your best tips for success?

1. This journey is yours...go at your own pace!
2. Invest in yourself...say, (with a smile) "I can't, I have to study."

What quotation inspires you?

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

What is your strangest, irrational fear?
That I'm going to be attacked by a squirrel on the riverwalk while walking on my lunch break. 

Click Here to Schedule with Rhonda McWhorter

Rhonda has been with the college for 13 years and advising students for 3 of those years. Rhonda thinks of herself as an ambivert (50% extravert/50% introvert). She loves to see people happy. Her gifts are motivating people and organizing.

What are your best tips for success?

1. Communicate with professors and classmates.
2. Get involved even if it’s outside your comfort zone.
3. Create study groups even if something is not due, it’s best to stay ahead!

What inspires you?
I find inspiration everywhere that I can. I learn from people as well positive and negative experiences. If something does not work out the way I envisioned it, I will push myself to find another way to move forward. Life is just like finding a career. There is no clear-cut single pathway to doing things. Everyone's experience is uniquely different and is equally important.

What is your strangest irrational fear?
I am afraid of sunflowers and clowns.

Click Here to Schedule with Demetria Smith

Demetria has been advising students at ChattState since 2013. She is also an instructor for College Success. Before Demetria joined us, she had been a financial aid counselor for several years at UTC (2004–2007).

What are your best tips for success?

1. Use the resources that ChattState provides to help you be successful.

2. Use the 2 for 1 rule for studying: plan to study two hours for each one hour of class time (depends on the class).

What is your favorite way to spend your day off?

I love to spend time with my family, reading and travel. Traveling is my most favorite thing in the world, so much that I recently became a certified Travel Agent.

What inspires you?
“Travel brings Power and Love back into your life.” -Rumi

Click Here to Schedule with Jade Pierce

Jade has been an advisor since July 2020. She has been with the college for seven years and gained experience across the campus: Financial Aid, Enrollment Services Center, and a Success Coach. This experience is a valuable tool as Jade advises not just about what classes to take next but how to succeed in college.

What is your best study tip?
Use the 25/5 method or the "pomodoro technique" to study. Before you study, decide what you want to accomplish and break your work into 25-minute intervals. Set a timer for 25 minutes and start studying. After 25 minutes, take a short 5 to 10-minute break. Repeat.

What inspires you?
Graduations inspire me. I get very emotional when I think about how hard each graduate worked to get where they are. It’s so inspiring to see students reach their goals.