Reach Higher, Do Better with Center for Academic Success

Reach Higher, Do Better with Center for Academic Success

Whether you are a first-year student learning to navigate your way through the school year or an upperclassman preparing for graduate school entrance exams, the Center for Academic Success can help you reach your academic goals.

Located in Osband Hall, CAS offers programs and services to help you improve your academic performance: tutoring, academic coaching, a lab full of resources, and workshops on everything from memory techniques to better study habits.

Check the UA events calendar under the Center for Academic Success category for a full listing of offering times and locations.

TUTORING AND SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION

Review and Help Sessions are available for a variety of math, chemistry and business courses. Drop in to ask questions and seek assistance.

Supplemental Instruction Sessions are facilitated by peer-leaders and allow you to integrate study strategies with specific course content.

Small Group Tutorial Appointments for select courses are peer-led and offer more individual attention.

LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER

Academic Coaching Appointments offer you one-on-one attention as you evaluate your success, establish goals and create a plan to help improve your academic performance.

The Learning Resource Lab provides you with access to materials and resources, computer programs and other digitized media, and review materials for graduate and professional school entrance exams.

Reading and Study Skills Workshops help you improve and build skill sets you need to be academically successful.

Study Skill Courses, New 122 and BEP 110, enhance your study skills and strengthen learning strategies and skills.

Freshman Compass Course, BCE 101, helps you make a successful transition to the University and explore your new academic community.

SUPPORT PROGRAMS

Student Support Services Trio Program provides individualized support services to help first-generation college students, students with limited incomes and students with disabilities be academically successful.

Alabama Reach provides current and former foster youth, orphans, emancipated minors and wards of the state with academic support and help accessing needed services on campus as well as cultivate meaningful relationships in the community.