The Student Support Services program helps students stay in college until they ultimately earn their baccalaureate degree. Participants, who include disabled college students, receive free tutoring, career and personal counseling, academic advising, and college survival skills. Students in the Student Support Services program are more than twice as likely to remain in college than those students from similar backgrounds who did not participate in the program. It is a proactive program which promotes a holistic approach to student development. Individual tutoring is available in all general education core courses.
Supplemental instruction is provided in selected math and science core courses.
Upward Bound helps students prepare for higher education. Participants receive instruction in literature, foreign languages, composition, mathematics, and science on college campuses and in the summer. About 50,000 high school students are currently being served by 579 projects. The ETSU Upward Bound program serves a total of 75 high school students from Carter, Johnson, Washington and Unicoi counties. Students start the four-year program in the beginning of their sophomore year and remain in the program until they begin their college career.