Center for Learning and Academic Support Services
Empowering students to persist, achieve, and graduate through personalized academic support, peer learning, and proactive student success initiatives.
The Center for Learning and Academic Support Services (CLASS) is Augusta University's comprehensive academic learning and student success center. We help students strengthen academic performance, develop effective learning strategies, navigate academic challenges, and persist toward graduation through personalized, evidence-informed support.
From tutoring and Supplemental Instruction to academic coaching, Early Alert intervention, academic recovery, peer learning, and virtual support, CLASS connects students with the people, strategies, and resources they need to move forward with confidence.
CLASS is part of Augusta University's Student Success and Retention portfolio, working collaboratively across the university to strengthen student learning, persistence, and degree completion.
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Center for Learning & Academic Support Services
Summerville Campus
Suite #156
How Can CLASS Help You?
Connect with the service that fits your needs. Whether you need help with a course, want to strengthen your learning strategies, or need support navigating an academic challenge, CLASS is here to help.
Education for Life
At CLASS, student success is about more than getting through the next assignment or exam. We help students develop the learning strategies, confidence, self-awareness, and academic habits that support success throughout college and beyond.
Our approach to Education for Life empowers students to become more independent, intentional, and resilient learners. Through personalized support, peer learning, and meaningful connections to university resources, students gain tools they can continue to use as they progress toward graduation and pursue their future goals.
Navigate — Helping students find their path.
We connect students with academic support, strategies, and university resources that
help them make informed decisions and move forward.
Excellence — Building stronger learners.
We help students strengthen learning strategies, develop effective academic habits,
and pursue continuous improvement in their coursework.
Wellness — Supporting the whole student.
We recognize that academic success is connected to well-being and help students build
sustainable habits while connecting them with appropriate campus resources when additional
support is needed.
Success — Turning progress into persistence.
We help students apply what they learn, respond to academic challenges, and continue
progressing toward their educational goals and graduation.
Our Promise
Life-Changing Learning. Student-Centered Support. Lifelong Success.
MISSION
CLASS advances student learning, persistence, and degree completion by providing accessible, evidence-informed academic support, proactive intervention, and collaborative learning experiences that empower students to become confident, independent learners.
VISION
To be a university-wide leader in academic support and student success, creating an environment where every student has the opportunity, resources, and support to learn, persist, and achieve their educational goals.
CORE VALUES
Student-Centeredness — We place students at the center of our work by providing responsive, inclusive, and individualized academic support.
Excellence — We pursue high-quality, evidence-informed practices that strengthen learning and continuously improve the student experience.
Collaboration — We build meaningful partnerships with students, faculty, staff, and academic units to create a coordinated network of support.
Empowerment — We help students develop the strategies, confidence, and independence needed to take ownership of their learning.
Access — We work to ensure that academic support is visible, approachable, and available to students across campuses, colleges, and learning environments.
Supporting Every College. Strengthening Every Student.
CLASS partners with Augusta University’s undergraduate colleges and academic programs to provide learning support that responds to the needs of students, courses, and academic communities across the university.
Through tutoring, Supplemental Instruction, academic coaching, Early Alert intervention, academic recovery, peer learning, workshops, and strategic partnerships, CLASS creates multiple pathways for students to access support throughout their academic journey.
By working collaboratively with faculty, academic leaders, advisors, and student success partners, CLASS helps identify academic needs, connect students to appropriate resources, and strengthen learning, persistence, and progress toward graduation.