The Academic Success Center (ASC) is your portal to achieving academic success at UT Arlington. We make every effort to assist students in meeting their academic goals across a wide variety of subject areas. Through supplemental instruction, tutoring, mentoring, and collaborations with campus partners, the Academic Success Center focuses on helping you maximize your potential and thrive in your undergraduate career at UT Arlington. Choose one of the services below for more help!
Academic Coaching is a working partnership that focuses on the process of learning. Partnering with a professional coach, students will examine their learning styles, habits of working, and current difficulties or barriers to success. Then together this team (coach and student) works to create and put in place more effective strategies for success. The aim is to heighten awareness of what it takes to achieve academic success and anchor the student with new strategies, a supportive relationship, and personal accountability
Tutoring can help students master course material for particular subject matter and develop grow strong study habits by working one-on-one with a tutor for free. eTutoring provides free online tutoring, including writing assistance. We offer drop -in and appointment based tutoring, both in person and virtually.
Supplemental Instruction, or SI, is a free service that helps students work in groups to understand class concepts.
Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) is a cohort-style academic support program for historically difficult subjects. Sessions are designed to encourage problem-solving strategies in pairs and in groups.
The I.D.E.A.S. Center is a hub of services to UT Arlington students undergoing a transition to a four-year university. The center is funded by a Department of Education grant aimed at partnering with transfer students, veterans, sophomores, and students re-entering school after a break, to help pave a path to student success. You can find our services in the Academic Plaza located on the 2nd floor of the Central Library or online.
TRiO-Student Support Services (SSS) is a component of the federal TRiO programs, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and provides opportunities for academic development and serves to motivate students toward successful completion of their undergraduate college experience.