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Student Academic Success Center

Located in the Family Life Center behind First Baptist Church, the Student Academic Success Center (SASC) offers a wide variety of services for students. This includes in-person and virtual tutoring services to help you excel in your studies. The Success Center can assist you with resolving issues that you may encounter with Blackboard, Self-Service Carolina, or accessing your student email. The Success Center has equipment for loan, such as digital voice recorders, scientific calculators, and discipline-specific study guides, to help you meet your academic goals. If you have any specific questions or need assistance, don’t hesitate to reach out to the Success Center for support. Your academic success is our priority! 

Tutoring

All of our tutors are current USC Union students or graduates of the University. Our tutors are highly qualified in their respective disciplines. We offer tutoring for many subjects within both the associates and bachelors programs. Tutors are available for traditional tutoring, group study sessions, virtual tutoring for distance learners, and also one-on-one sessions.


We are also able to guide students while navigating the all-new 24/7 online Brainfuse Tutoring service. Brainfuse allows students access to online tutoring from anywhere, at any time, and it covers many subjects that are offered by USC. This is an excellent resource for our students that provides access to tutoring assistance and tools to better navigate assignments after hours.

 

You may log into Brainfuse by:

  1. Logging into your Blackboard account
  2. Selecting the course in which you would like tutoring
  3. Selecting “Tools”
  4. Selecting “Brainfuse Online Tutoring – Online College”

 

SASC Tutor Schedule and Specialties
Writing Consultants: 
Leah Baldwin: Leah Baldwin has been the head of the writing consultant team for three years now. She specializes in both common writing styles — APA and MLA. As for different types of papers, she primarily focuses on two different types of academic writing: Argumentative and Research papers. Leah is also proficient in grammar, sentence structure, and essay formatting. She is in her third year of college, working her way towards a Bachelor of Science in Public Health. Leah has won several awards for her academic achievements, which reflect her writing capabilities and leadership in her role as both a writing consultant and academic tutor. 
 
Bryson Dameron: Bryson Dameron is a longtime English tutor with multiple years of experience helping students refine their papers. He specializes in grammatical and mechanical corrections, brainstorming and developing ideas. Bryson is a third-year student currently working towards a Bachelor of Arts in English minoring in Psychology. He won an award for his work in Cultural Studies which he still uses to foster a strong relationship and foundation with all students he tutors.  
 

Equipment

The Student Academic Success Center also has a program which enables students to sign out loaner equipment that may be needed to be more successful in their classes. Currently, we have digital voice recorders which can be used to record classroom lectures and graphing calculators for use in math classes, which require the calculators. Discipline specific study aids are available for students to sign out for additional support.
 

Contact Us At:

864-424-8040

 

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