Success Network at Spartanburg Community College Helping Keep Students in School

An Upstate community college is assisting college students who have the odds stacked against them. The Success Network, at Spartanburg Community College, is a support program that aims to keep those with economic and physical challenges in school.

From SCC, “Success Network is an academic support program at Spartanburg Community College that offers a variety of services and activities to assist SCC students in reaching their academic and career goals. The goals of Success Network are to increase the retention, graduation, and college transfer rates of its participating students. To help students succeed academically, Success Network services and activities focus on students' individual learning needs. To assist students in obtaining rewarding employment after graduation from SCC, Success Network offers many career-oriented services. Finally, Success Network not only helps students succeed at the associate degree level but also offers a variety of transfer-related services to encourage students to further their education by transferring to four-year colleges and universities”

The Success Network is a program funded through the U.S. Department of Education. The program has three goals – to help students stay in school, graduate with college degree, and transfer to 4-year college. One-on-one tutoring is just one of the things Spartanburg community college student McKinley Anderson would tell you contributes to his success as a student. Anderson says, "Success network is great. They get you to realize there is more to you, than just your hands, than being just a number in a company, or whatever, or android. They say you have something up here to offer the world."

http://www.sccsc.edu/resources/dev/success

SCC Success Network
SCC Central Campus
Dan L. Terhune Student Services Building
Suite 174
Erin Watkins Director
Phone: (864) 592-4780
The Success Network is one TRIO’s Student Support Services (SSS) programs.:

The U.S. Department of Education’s TRIO site:

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/trio/index.html.

The Department of Education’s SSS website:

http://www.ed.gov/programs/triostudsupp/index.html

Website for the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE – the national organization for TRIO professionals):

http://www.coenet.us//ecm/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home.

Brief history of TRIO:

http://www.coenet.us/ecm/AM/Template.cfm?Section=History&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=2942

Brief description of each type of TRIO program:

http://www.coenet.us/ecm/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Programs_at_a_Glance&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=6568.