Tutoring & Academic Support Services

Academic Achievement Center

The Academic Achievement Center cultivates the development of critical thinking and active learning through personal collaborative exchanges between students, tutors, leaders and staff. The AAC offers the following services:

• Tutoring for many 100- and 200-level courses (small group, drop-in, and appointment-based sessions).
• Individualized academic skill development in areas such as time management, learning strategies, and more.
• Supplemental Instruction through peer-led facilitated review sessions.
• Outreach Workshops on Learning Skills.
• Proctored exam services through its University Proctoring Lab (UPL).

Academic Success Coaching Program (ASCP)

The Academic Success Coaching Program (ASCP) provides personalized first-year student support. It includes student referrals to resources that enhance student’s academic preparedness and reaches beyond issues of academics, placing its focus on holistic student development. 

The ASCP assists students in the development of life skills, promoting healthy, positive behaviors that better ensure student success throughout a student’s first year and beyond. The program fosters student effort and productivity, helping students set and achieve goals and make successful changes where needed in their academic and interpersonal lives.

GEAR UP

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a national initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education to prepare students to enter and succeed in college. At UNCG, GEAR UP provides academic coaching for students to achieve their academic and personal goals with the opportunity to build peer relationships and engage with campus activities and resources. Students selected for the GEAR UP program must be graduates from high schools that have partnered with GEAR UP.

Guarantee Scholars Program

The Guarantee Scholars Program is a holistic student success program dedicated to supporting and developing high-achieving students with significant financial need in all aspects of their college experience to ensure success. This program accepts up to 35 incoming first-year students each year and supports them for four years through a cohort model. 

Support provided includes specialized financial aid packages, peer mentorship to support college transition, academic advising, planning and skill building, leadership development, professional development and career coaching, financial literacy workshops, and more. 

McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (TRiO-McNair)

The McNair program is designed to prepare undergraduate students for the pursuit of a Ph.D., with the goal to diversify faculty demographics across the United States. UNCG-McNair provides faculty mentors, training, research opportunities and more to a cohort of 25 students from diverse, underrepresented minority populations, including first-generation students with low or modest income, African-American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Alaskan native/American Indian and/or Pacific Islanders populations.

Student Support Services (TRiO-SSS)

TRIO-SSS is a federally-funded grant program through the U.S. Department of Education that provides a range of support to first-generation college students from modest-income backgrounds or students who are registered with OARS [link: oars.uncg.edu]. Unique support services include academic skill building in areas such as study strategies, note-taking, and time management; one-on-one tutoring in specific courses; individual personal and academic advising; and one-on-one financial literacy education coaching. SSS helps students find and stay on their academic path.