Success Programs

The Center for Student Success provides you with the resources and support you need to successfully transition to college.

Whether you are looking for academic support, mentoring, or a group of peers to connect with, you will find a success program that is a perfect fit for you.

At UHart, we offer a wide range of services to help support and enhance your UHart academic and student life experience. Connect with your student peers to prepare for success through academic support and mentoring programs.

Academic Support

Focused instruction is available for students to enhance their math, science, reading, and writing skills, including services for non-native English speakers. We also provide accommodations for students with documented disabilities, promoting self-advocacy and independence in a supportive environment.

Access-Ability Services

Provides accommodations and services to students with disabilities to ensure a University experience that gives individuals with disabilities the same access to programs, opportunities and activities as all others.

Center for Adult Academic Services

Adult Academic Services is a general resource for all part-time undergraduates who need support with part-time University Studies, certificate programs, and coordinating testing and alternative credit options.

Peer Support Workshops (PSWs)

Peers work with faculty teaching STEM based gateway courses to curate problems for students to review during the one-hour weekly meetings.

If, after your first semester in college, you are in need of some additional support to make improvements in your second semester, we have options to help! Connect with the Center for Student Success to find the best path for success.

Tutoring Services

UHart’s comprehensive academic support services include free, one-on-one faculty and peer tutoring through the Center for Student Success. Undergraduate and graduate students tutor in writing, chemistry, biology, math, physics, social sciences, engineering, business, foreign languages, and the performing arts.

We also provide individualized assistance to anyone in the University community who wants to develop efficient strategies for writing across the disciplines. Ask for support with generating ideas for papers, writing research papers, and organizing and editing drafts.

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Preceptor Program

Preceptors work within introductory and/or critical gateway courses and can assist with a variety of things such as: leading discussions, running writing workshops, leading a lab section, overseeing a group project, running an exam review session and offering the instructor feedback around creating a classroom environment supportive of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and more.

If you are a sophomore, junior and/or senior and interested in an opportunity such as this, please contact the department directly or the Center for Student Success (CSS) – Tutoring: ctctutor@alexblog.net

Affinity Mentoring Networks

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Vuela Mas Alto

Vuela Mas Alto (VMA) is a program designed to kick-start student success, promote awareness, and educate the greater University community about Latinx culture and social issues.

STRIDE

The Success Team for Readiness, Improvement, Diversity and Excellence (STRIDE) is a unique University of Hartford program designed to support underrepresented students during their first year of college and through their time at UHart.

First-Generation

The University offers special resources and support for first-generation students who are exploring higher education for the first time and helping family members learn along the way.

The LEAD Program

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The Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) program is an exclusive leadership development, resilience coaching, and career readiness program for undergraduate women.

Designed to respond to the unique opportunities and challenges of female students at each stage of their undergraduate experience, LEAD provides students with the tools, training, and community to successfully navigate the journey to and through college to life and careers.

Learn more about LEAD