Sculpting Independent Learners
The Student Academic Success Center (SASC) is here to help you develop and maintain the skills you need to meet the challenges of undergraduate and graduate academic demands. Our professional staff assist in developing a learning and study plan based on your needs and work with you to assess your progress and effectiveness in implementing practices.
Tutoring at SASC
What To Expect
How to Prepare
Services
We offer a variety of services including tutoring, writing support, learning specialist consultations, digital project support, group workshops, and courses. Services are available to currently matriculated students and alumni. Email sasc@ballballu.com for assistance.
The Student Academic Success Center is absolutely incredible. No other school is going to have a tutoring center like SASC at UNE. I absolutely love how easy it is to get extra help with the peer tutors at SASC.”
— Anthony Johnson ’26
Placement Procedures
The placement process evaluates your skill level in writing and mathematics to determine which courses are most appropriate to maximize your academic success. Placement decisions are made by professional staff from the Student Academic Success Center. Results are reported to academic advisors prior to registration.
Writing Placement
As an incoming undergraduate student, you will be placed in an appropriate writing course (Writing Lab with English Composition, or English Composition) based on a review of multiple measures of your achievement, including high school grade point average, high school English grades, Advanced Placement credit, or English Composition transfer credit.
Mathematics Placement
Math placement is made based on your credentials prior to New Student Orientation. First-year students are assigned one of five levels using a combination of data: high school mathematics courses and grades, other high school transcript information, GPA, and SAT/ACT or other standard mathematics test scores if available. Transfer students are placed based on available high school records and college transcripts.
After utilizing all of the SASC resources, I began to see improvement not only in my grades, but also in my confidence and self-esteem.”
— Cheryl Espinosa ’20
Contact
Our professional staff are here to help you develop and maintain the skills you need to meet the challenges of undergraduate and graduate academic demands. We assist in developing a learning and study plan based on your needs, and we will work with you to assess your progress and effectiveness in implementing practices.
Biddeford Campus
Staff Offices: Hills Beach Rd., across from Alfond Health Sciences
Tutoring Center: Ripich Commons, room 206
(207) 602-2443
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Portland Campus for the Health Sciences and Online
Proctor Hall, room 102
(207) 221-4247
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Certifications
The Student Academic Success Center was recognized in 2017 as a Learning Center of Excellence by the National College Learning Center Association.
Our tutoring program has been continuously certified by the College Reading and Learning Association since 1993.
