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Academic Support
USC provides comprehensive resources to support your academic success.
Academic Advising & Coaching: Advisors help you define and achieve your goals from freshman year to graduation, this includes individualized and ongoing learning support.
Changing Majors (Exploratory Advising): Advisors are available for in person or remote major change advising sessions to understand the next steps.
Graduation and Retention Network: Learn how to graduate faster or get back on track with course credits to graduate on time.
Student Success Center: Your one-stop resource for academic support, including tutoring, peer writing, time management, study skills and money management. Transfer and sophomore students will find tailored support here, too.
Student Disability Resource Center: Provides support and helps coordinate efforts to ensure registered students with disabilities receive reasonable accommodations.
Career Center: Supports you at all stages of career planning from identifying possibilities to making decisions on future direction to searching for hands-on experience.
Health and Well-Being
USC offers resources and services toward the goal of creating a healthy campus environment that fosters success.
Basic Needs: The CommUnity Shop provides food, clothing, toiletries, school supplies and other essentials to individuals experiencing basic needs insecurities.
Campus Recreation: Provides programs and services that promote fitness and quality of life.
Civil Rights and Title IX: Provides support to students, staff and faculty regarding the fair and equal treatment of every person in the university community. Report discrimination, harassment or sexual misconduct.
Mental Health Resources: Online, in-person and self-care resources help students improve their mental health by identifying and managing contributing factors from sleep and substance use to academic concerns and stress to grief and loss.
Student Disability Resource Center: Ensuring that students with disabilities receive reasonable accommodations because every student deserves equal access to all aspects of the USC experience.
Student Health and Well-Being: Improving the health and well-being of our Carolina community through highly trained clinicians and staff.
Safety
Navigating the college experience can be a challenge from time to time. Our campus community is dedicated to a safe experience for everyone and offers these resources to help.
Is this an emergency? Call 9-1-1.
Operators work closely with campus emergency resources to correctly route your call. This includes critical concerns for suicide or self-harming behavior, emotional distress or threats of harm to campus.
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 988 (24-Hour)
Crisis Text Line: Text HELLO to 741741 (FREE, 24/7 and confidential)
Campus Safety: Take action immediately in harmful situations.
USCPD Safety Tools: Plan ahead using these recommended services.
Sexual Assault Prevention: Interpersonal violence prevention and support.
Get Involved
USC offers an enormous array of opportunities to get out, get involved and develop the kind of connections, skills and meaningful experiences that last a lifetime.
Leadership and Community Service: Build your leadership skills, impact your community and expand your education beyond the classroom.
Multicultural Student Affairs: Educating, empowering and organizing students and community partners to seek out opportunities for social justice.
My USC Experience: Search for purposeful activities that further your learning and personal growth and expand your network.
Student Organizations (Garnet Gate): Check out the complete student organization directory with more than 550 groups that focus on academics, sports, dance, games, careers and more.
Student Tickets: Experience the excitement of Gamecock Athletics. Learn how eligible students can attend events for free.
Latest Announcements
Rental textbooks due by end of finals
If you rented a textbook this semester, it must be returned to the Russell House Bookstore no later than May 1.
Parking launches ParkUSC
Parking and Transportation Services' new app called ParkUSC (Apple, Google Play) will help campus community members identify available spaces in campus parking lots.
USC unveils desegregation monument
The University of South Carolina will honor Robert Anderson, Henrie Monteith Treadwell and James Solomon Jr. — the first Black students admitted to the university since Reconstruction — with the unveiling of a commemorative monument on Friday (April 19).
Donate to SEC food drive
Give to the Gameock CommUnity Shop during the SEC Food Fight through April 18.
University News
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Father's writing 'to survive' loss of young son turns into inspirational book
USC alumnus Stephen Panus has written an inspirational book about surviving the loss of his teenage son Jake. Panus, who also established a scholarship for football walk-ons to honor the memory of his son, will be in town to talk about his book "Walk On."
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USC unveils monument honoring desegregation trailblazers
The University of South Carolina unveiled a monument honoring the first Black students admitted since Reconstruction — Robert Anderson, Henrie Monteith Treadwell and James Solomon Jr. — whose enrollment six decades ago changed the course of university history.
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Swanger Award winner leaves behind legacy of service, leadership
While working on her degree in nursing, South Carolina Honors College student Natalie Trimble also served in various capacities in Student Government and worked in the larger Columbia community to improve the lives of students and residents. For her efforts, the Aberdeen, Maryland, resident is the recipient of the 2023 Steven N. Swanger Leadership Award.
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Sullivan Award winner plans to continue volunteerism as physician
Edgar Lemus Rivera plans to continue his dedication to volunteerism and service as he works his way through medical school to become a physician. The biochemistry and molecular biology major from Toms River, New Jersey, is one of two winners of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award — the university’s highest student honor.