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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
Vista Lights will affect traffic Nov. 21
Road closures for the annual Vista Lights on Nov. 21 will affect traffic for the campus community and fans heading to the men’s basketball game at 7 p.m. against Mercer.
Apply for student media leadership positions
Submit your application for The Daily Gamecock editor-in-chief or SGTV station manager leadership roles.
Grad Fair for December graduates
December graduates can prepare for their big day at the Grad Fair in Russell House Bookstore 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 15.
Voter registration deadline extended following Hurricane Helene
South Carolina’s voter registration deadline is extended to Oct. 14 following Hurricane Helene.
University News
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James L. Solomon Jr. leaves behind lasting legacy at South Carolina
James L. Solomon Jr., a trailblazer at USC and a distinguished civil servant, passed away at the age 94. He was one of three students who desegregated the university over 60 years ago.
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Renewed grants, funding growth solidify College of Pharmacy's research leadership
The College of Pharmacy, driven by faculty like Jun Zhu, M.D., Ph.D., and Hippokratis Kiaris, continues to lead in pharmaceutical research with $13 million in sponsored awards in 2024, a 67% increase from last year. Zhu’s groundbreaking work on HIV-related cognitive care recently earned a $3.8 million NIH grant, while Kiaris’ COBRE Center has facilitated over $50 million in research funding. Their efforts contribute to USC’s record $309 million in research funding, solidifying its reputation for global health impact.
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Holiday card contest winner finds joy in making art
Senior Lauren Puttock has won the University of South Carolina’s third holiday card design contest for her acrylic painting of Cocky reading on a snowy day. President Michael Amiridis and First Lady Ero Aggelopoulou-Amiridis chose the artwork for the cover of their annual greeting card.
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USC-led center spurs scientific improvements to catalyst preparation
One-third of the world’s GDP depends on chemical catalysts, and an industry-university research center led by USC is helping its members better understand how those chemical reaction boosters can be tweaked for peak efficiency.