STUDENT RESOURCES AND SUPPORT LEAD TO ACADEMIC SUCCESS: There are many routes to success, and UAB is dedicated to helping you find your personal path. Be sure to take advantage of the many special classes, people, and resources providing academic support and advice when you need it. Don't wait until it's too late to ask for help - use these resources from the beginning.
Don't stress out. Reach out!
Call the Student Academic Success Hotline at (205) 934-6139
The UAB Student Academic Success hotline is a resource for students to help them find academic support services. The hotline provides personal assistance for students who feel like they are having difficulties and don't know where to get help. UAB has many resources students may not know about or know how to contact. By calling the hotline, students can have a person help them connect with appropriate campus resources for assistance with their academic issures.
The hotline will be manned Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Students calling outside of these times will be contacted the following work day.
- Help in developing meaningful educational plans
- Assist with difficulties in your academic pursuits
- Help defining career goals
- Career interest & personality assessments
- Career Fairs & Resource Library
- Networking/Mentoring/Internships
- Free confidential health & counseling services
- Educational events to promote healthy living
- Making education accessible to everyone
- Priority registration
- Broad array of services & technologies
- Free English comp & grammar tutorial assistance
- Help with reading proficiency or writing tasks
- Learn effective reading & writing skills
- Opportunities for financial assistance
- Money-saving tips
- Bridge the gap between high school experiences and university expectations
- Enhance successful progress towards graduation
- Courses based on a "theme"
- Small class sizes with extracurricular activities
- Personal attention from faculty
- Open lab with over 200 computers - Heritage Hall
- Support for undergraduate math classes
- Tutors available during business hour
- Quizzes to test your financial knowledge
- Tips on buying a car
- Advice on how to manage debt
- 4 computing labs across campus
- Consultants available for assistance
- E-mail, internet, & printer access
- Online student success seminars
- Helping students succeed beyond graduation
- Boost skills from note-taking to managing money
- Free academic assistance program
- Peer-led, out-of-class study sessions
- Learn study skills & strategies
- Provides individual placement tests for UAB courses
- Administers undergraduate examinations
- Comprehensive testing services, including AP & CLEP
- Must meet requirements & be a 1st generation student
- Free services including one-on-one assesment
- Assist students to graduate in 4 years
- Interdisciplinary course for freshmen
- Introduces students to critical thinking
- Guidance for personal academic planning
- Mervyn H. Sterne Library
- Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
- Reynolds Historical Library
