Helping you achieve your goals
Celt Student Success
- Success Coaching — one-on-one conversations with a coach who knows your name
- Academic Advising — select classes together for each semester
- Food Pantry — food provided to students—no questions asked.
- Tutoring — struggling with the Core classes or anything else? Reach out to your success coach or visit the Tutorial Services Center to get the tutoring help you need.
A place to get the help you need
Celt Student Center
Student Success Centers
UST’s Student Success Centers are physical spaces on campus that help nurture and enhance your student experience. Success centers cover several academic disciplines and student-interest groups. The main goal of these centers is provide students with the resources you need to thrive.
Celt Success Center
The Celt Success Center is the one-stop shop for student success. If you need guidance or help relating to anything academic and/or your time at UST, we can help you.
Nursing Success Center
The Nursing Success Center promotes academic success, personal well-being, and a strong sense of community in a Catholic liberal arts setting. Services include peer-to-peer tutoring, collaborative and individual study spaces, a donated book loan program, daily printing, and support for academic progression and advising. In close partnership with the Office of Counseling Services, the center also offers nursing support groups, along with a coffee lounge.
From personalized academic coaching and career counseling to veteran-specific programming, the Veterans Success Center team understands the unique challenges and opportunities facing veteran students. The center is committed to providing guidance and resources needed to achieve a veteran student’s academic and professional goals. Veterans enjoy a dedicated lounge, study spaces, a full kitchen, as well as a coffee lounge for our military-connected students daily.
The Research Success Center (RSC) is Doherty Library’s hub for personalized research support, information literacy, and academic success. Staffed by librarians, the RSC provides expert guidance to students, faculty, and staff throughout every stage of the research process—from first-year assignments to capstone projects and graduate-level scholarship.
We help with beginning research assignments, refining a research question, navigating complex scholarly resources, and more.
More Student Success Opportunities
See more areas where we help students in success coaching with peer mentors and tutoring.
STEM Success
The STEM Success Center keeps the connection of faith and reason as the top priority. Student success in STEM programs is vital to the academic prowess at UST, so we prioritize academic excellence and student retention. Exploration and curiosity are celebrated among the sciences at UST. The STEM Success Center is comprised of success coaches in biology, chemistry and biochemistry, math and computer science, and engineering.
Engineering Success
The Engineering Success Center empowers engineering and physics students to reach their full potential through personalized mentorship and professional development. Rooted in the Basilian core values of UST, we cultivate a community where students grow in goodness, discipline, knowledge, and community. We prepare students to excel academically and serve society as ethical and responsible engineers.
Pragmatic Academic Success Coaching
As an incoming Pragmatic Studies student, you will be a part of the tradition of excellence at UST. Rooted in Catholic social teaching, our programs are unique because they are inclusive and designed specifically for students that learn differently. We prepare advancement in your knowledge, while learning critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Our success coaches are very hands-on to help our neurodivergent students thrive at St. Thomas.
Tools for support at UST
EdSights and Watermark
UST provides two tools built to support students.
- Meet Lenny the Cat: your check-in companion (powered by EdSights)
Our Celt lion mascot, Lenny, will send students a text message every so often to ask how things are going. Lenny wants to know how students are doing in their classes. Students answers are read by real people at UST who follow up and connect students to the right resource. Honest answers from students help UST support them. - Watermark: your go-to for appointments and support
Watermark is the platform students use to schedule appointments with success coaches, ask for support, and read notices from faculty. Think of it as a students’ success hub, available whenever they need it.
How they work together
- Lenny checks in with students. Students get a text and reply honestly.
- Watermark lets students reach out. Download the app so you can have easy access to this important tool!
Any Questions?
Contact Us
For more information about our succcess centers and which one might be the best fit for you, please reach out to: