With 14 full-time staff members, the Thornton Athletics Student Life Center offers academic counseling services, career development program, student development program, comprehensive tutoring program, writing lab, math lab, computer lab, and accommodations for students with special needs.
Student-athletes at Tennessee receive top-flight academic support through the Thornton Athletics Student Life Center.
Among some of the services provided are:
Champs/Life Skills- Provides student-athletes with resources for future work
- Workshops on personal development issues, resume building, and interviewing
- Opportunities for community service
- Annual career fair
- Provides a quiet, equipped, and supportive environment for student learning
- Objective-Based Study Hall is a program for at-risk student-athletes
- Mentors assist students in organizational and study skills
- Designed to provide students with a structured and supervised study environment conducive to learning
- Free tutoring is available in nearly any subject
- Writing Lab staff work with student-athletes at all stages of the writing process and for any discipline
- Staffed by tutors who have taught writing and literature courses
- Provides individual assistance and group study sessions related to math
- Four components: curriculum, research incentives and peer mentoring.
- Program dealing with issues that student-athletes need to be aware of in order to be successful during their first year and beyond
- Comprehensive academic support program in conjunction with Office of Disability Services
- Assists male and female student athletes with disabilities (physical, psychological, and learning).
- The University of Tennessee Athletics Departments actively recruit student-athletes from diverse backgrounds, including students from foreign countries.
- Our international ranks represent 6 continents and 17 countries.
- The RAC Program assist former student-athletes achieve their goal of graduation from the University of Tennessee.
For more information, visit the Thornton Center homepage.
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