Welcome to the Tomás Rivera Center
The Tomás Rivera Center for Student Success (TRC) is an academic support unit dedicated to providing services that will promote student success.
Academic Success Programs
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.
Learning Assistance
The Tomás Rivera Center offers a variety of programs to meet students' individual learning assistance needs. The Tutoring Center provides tutoring for selected core curriculum courses. Academic Coaches are available for personal appointments. Information-packed Study Skills Workshops teach advanced techniques for studying, such as new ways to prepare for tests and how to remember information more effectively. All services are free to UTSA Students.
Downtown Campus
Learn about the services and workshops that the Tomás Rivera Center
makes available to you at the downtown campus.
Supplemental Instruction
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.
Learning Communities
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.