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.
Downtown Campus
Learn about the services and workshops that the Tomás Rivera Center makes available to you at the downtown campus.
Learning Assistance
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
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
Drop-in tutoring is available to students in more than 90 courses in Math, Science, Engineering, Business, Foreign Languages and Anthropology. The Math Assistance Program offers study sessions in supported College Algebra and Pre-Calculus courses. The Non-Course Based Developmental Program provides students with an alternative to traditional developmental courses.
