Student Support Services
UAA TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) offers support services to students with limited income, whose parent(s) or guardian(s) have not earned a baccalaureate degree, and/or who experience a documented disability. Each year, TRIO SSS supports 160 participating students navigate through to graduation. There is no cost for eligible students accepted into the program.
Services SSS Provides Participating Students:
- Academic Mentoring Support.
- Assessment Testing: Accuplacer, Learning Styles and Strengths Quest Inventories.
- Assistance with Degree Planning and Academic Mapping.
- Bridging Program/Mentoring: Orientation to UAA and the College Experience.
- College Survival Skills Instruction (3 Credits): Formal instruction on keys to successful college learning and degree completion.
- Community and Campus Cultural Events: SSS Club, Cultural Exposé, Performing Art Culture Exposure, and Welcome Gatherings.
- Financial Aid Assistance: Help completing the FAFSA, scholarship essay and referral assistance, tuition waivers, and Financial Literacy 101 Instruction.
- Skill Development Workshops: Financial Literacy and Resume Development.
- Tutorial Assistance: Individualized tutoring and referral to campus/departmental tutoring.
TRIO Support Student Services participates annually in TRIO National Day of Service, which is a nationally a nationally organized event between colleges and universities across the country that unite together to bring awareness and advocate for TRIO Programs.
Student Support Services is a fully-funded TRIO program of the U.S. Department of Education in the amount of $228,186.00 annually. Sec. 402D HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 SEC. 402D.20 U.S.C 1070a-14.
Location
Eugene Short Hall 207
Hours
Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm
Contact
(907) 786-1380
Meet the SSS Team
Interested in becoming a SSS participant?
Applicants need to meet one of the following eligibility requirements:
- Be first in their family to pursue a bachelor's degree and/or come from a family with an annual income that qualifies them for a Pell grant;
- OR experience a disability;
- OR be a recent student from foster care.