Academic Help
This campus service helps students improve essays, research papers, and citations
What is the Learning Center or Writing Center?
This campus location provides basic medical care, vaccinations, and treatment for common illnesses.
What is the campus health center or student health center?
This office helps students understand grants, loans, scholarships, and FAFSA information.
What is the Financial Aid Office?
These student-led groups bring together people with shared interests, cultures, hobbies, or career goals.
What are clubs or student organizations?
This campus department responds to emergencies, safety concerns, and suspicious activity
What is campus security, public safety, campus police?
This office helps students choose classes, understand degree requirements, and stay on track for graduation.
What is Academic Advising?
Feeling stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed? Students can often receive free or low-cost appointments here.
What is the counseling center or mental health services?
Tracking income and expenses each month is called creating this.
What is a budget?
This campus event helps new students learn about resources, traditions, and expectations before classes begin.
What is orientation?
This skill involves noticing concerning behavior in friends and connecting them with trusted adults or campus resources.
What is bystander intervention or helping-seeking?
If you are struggling in a class, these students may offer free help sessions because they already passed the course successfully.
What are Peer Tutors or Tutoring Services?
This wellness habit is especially important during finals week but is often ignored by students.
What is getting enough sleep?
Money that does not usually need to be repaid and is often awarded based on achievement or need.
What is a scholarship or grant?
Students who live on campus often go here for help with roommate issues or residence hall concerns.
What is the residence life office or resident assistant (RA)?
Many campuses offer this nighttime service so students do not have to walk alone after dark.
What is a safe ride or escort service?
Campus safety escorts (like SafeWalk/BearWalk) provide free, uniformed walking escorts or shuttles to keep students safe. At UC Berkeley, trained Community Service Officers (CSOs) accompany students to nearby transit or housingProfessors set aside this special time for students to ask questions and get extra help.
What are Office Hours?
This service helps students in crisis at any hour, including nights and weekends.
What is a 24/7 crisis hotline or emergency counseling service?
This campus job option allows students to earn money while attending school, often connected to financial aid.
What is work-study?
These campus events help students meet employers and explore internships or future careers.
What are career fairs?
Offer a wealth of resources including textbooks, journals, research materials, and quiet study spaces.
What is a Campus Library?
Students with documented learning, medical, or physical needs can receive accommodations through this campus office.
What is the Disability Services or Accessibility Office?
Many colleges offer access to this type of facility for exercise and recreation to support physical wellness.
What is the campus recreation center or gym?
High-interest debt from frequently overspending on this financial tool can hurt students financially for years.
What is a credit card?
These programs help first-generation or underrepresented students adjust to college.
What are TRIO programs or student support services?
If a student experiences discrimination or harassment, this office often handles reports and support services.
What is the student affairs or student conduct office? (Title IX office)