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Student Success
Who We Are
SCI’s Student Success staff help students identify and build new skills, develop their strengths, overcome challenges, and take advantage of opportunities to make their Pitt experience exceptional. The idea is to help you explore, discover and succeed!
To do that, we partner directly with students across SCI (from first-year students to doctoral students) to address individual needs and unique goals and aid students in building their support network and skills to become resilient self-advocates, utilizing a student-centered approach with an emphasis on academic achievement and student development. Specifically, we provide students with academic guidance, support and developmental instruction.
We also provide resources to faculty, staff, and parents who share their concerns for student success. We extend our partnership beyond SCI through key offices across the University to provide a support network for student academic and psycho-social wellness.
No matter where you are in your academic, professional or personal journey, Student Success empowers you to take your university experience to the next level. Student Success at SCI supports students to perform well academically; develop holistically; and successfully advance to careers, service and/or continuing education.
And the best part? You know you will never have to do it alone.
Resources
Are you an SCI student and have a quick question? Student Success has drop-in hours. No appointment necessary!
Every Tuesday, 12:00-1:00PM - join via this Zoom link or use this Zoom ID: 912 7957 0957
Every Thursday, 3:30-4:30PM - join via this Zoom link or use this Zoom ID: 975 6773 2791
*Office hours will not be held during University holidays and closures. If we are with another student, you may briefly be placed in a virtual waiting room.
General Resources
- Getting Started Checklist
- What you need to know to start the term ready to succeed
- Get connected: Stay engaged
- Well-being: Mind, Body, and Spirit
- Supporting the Whole Student
- Engage, Lead, Succeed
- Financial Wellness, Aid and Funding Resources
- Emergency and Crisis Assistance
- If you are in an emergency situation where danger is imminent and immediate help is required, call 911 or the Pitt Police at 412-624-2121.
- Academic Support and Tutoring offices
COVID-19 Information and Resources
- SCI COVID-19 Information
- Pitt’s Coronavirus website: Every day, we learn more about COVID-19. Our experts are carefully monitoring—and in the case of our amazing researchers, creating—this new knowledge, and adjusting course in response.
- A Safer Start to College Life: Learn more about Pitt’s phased arrival, virus monitoring plans and more.
- What are the Operational Postures of the Pitt Resilience Plan?
Student Success Objectives
- To welcome and orient undergraduate and graduate students to the requirements and expectations of university life.
- To support students during their transition to the learning and teaching environment.
- To provide ongoing academic and social support for students on their academic journey from enrollment to graduation, leading student interventions, such as poor performance and academic probation.
- To coordinate leadership opportunities to students in a variety of peer tutoring, peer mentoring, and teaching assistant roles.
- To provide opportunities for students to engage as contributing members of their University community and to learn the academic and social skills necessary to succeed while at the University and in a diverse global society.