The Tomás Rivera Center for Student Success (TRC) is an academic support unit dedicated to providing services that will promote student success.
The Tomás Rivera Center sponsors academic success programs for various freshman populations. This includes undeclared and provisional students, as well as scholarship recipients. These programs seek to ease the transition from high school to college by providing academic advising and support.
The Tomás Rivera Center offers a variety of programs to meet students’ individual learning assistance needs. Academic Coaches are available for personal appointments to help students identify academic strengths and to assist students in building effective study skills. Information-packed workshops are offered that teach advanced techniques for studying. Program services are specialized for the needs of undergraduate and graduate UTSA students.
A Learning Community is a voluntarily assembled group of 25 freshmen with the same major or interests who take 2 or 3 of their core curriculum classes together during their first semester at UTSA.
Supplemental Instruction is a series of weekly study sessions for difficult courses, guided by students who successfully completed them. Three 50-minute sessions are held each week.
Tutoring Services provides tutoring as a free service to all students. There are three tutoring labs located at the 1604 campus and a tutoring center located at the Downtown campus.
Learn about the services and workshops that the Tomás Rivera Center makes available to you at the downtown campus.
