Neurodiversity

**From Financial Aid: "Remember this is for students who are registered, have aid offers
posted and do not have unpaid balance."

Academic Advising at the University of Maine at Augusta has been designed to enhance, facilitate, and promote student success. Whether you are changing your major, setting goals, or seeking resources, they are available to assist you.

Embarking on the journey of shaping your career at UMA is an exhilarating adventure, filled with tailored support and dynamic opportunities. UMA's career advising services are meticulously crafted to ignite your ambitions and guide you towards realizing your professional aspirations.

Confidential Resource Advisors (CRAs) provide emergency and ongoing support to individuals impacted by sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking. Our free confidential services are available to students and employees across the University of Maine System.

Counseling can be a great resource to help enhance your academic success as well as your overall college experience. UMA counselors provides a safe, non-judgmental setting where you can discuss your challenges and get support. You and the clinical counselor work together to agree on what issues you want to address, and what you want to get out of the counseling process.

The mission of the UMA Campus Assessment Response Evaluation Team (CARE) is to coordinate and implement policy development, education, and timely intervention in regard to students exhibiting signs of serious distress, or engaging in harmful or disruptive behavior.

The CARE Team is not a crisis or emergency response team, but provides a system for proactive intervention to student behaviors of concern in order to reduce disruption and facilitate a safe, respectful and productive learning and working environment.

Individualized professional success coaching focuses on organizational skills, time-management, motivation, life/school/work balance, scholarship help, career exploration, post-grad planning, and tearing down barriers.

Tutoring is intended to help students increase their understanding of course material, and improve their learning and study skills. Tutoring is available for most developmental and introductory courses as well as some upper-level courses. It is provided in individual or small group settings by qualified community or peer tutors.

Led by UMA writing faculty and staffed by undergraduate students, the Writing Center offers UMA writers (students from all majors) a point of connection on the Augusta or Bangor campus. Stop by to plan and outline a writing project, gain an outside reader’s perspective on a draft, learn tips and tricks for academic writing conventions and proofreading strategies, connect with campus community members. Available for consultations in-person or via email or Zoom.

TRIO Scholars is student support services funded by a federal grant to serve students who are first in their families to earn a bachelors degree, using accommodations to access their learning and classrooms, or using a larger amount of financial aid to attend university. TRIO is a department that amplifies and intensifies many services found on campus and focuses specifically on helping students sign up for classes, navigate financial aid, FAFSA, and economic literacy, as well as amplifies tutoring and exploration of graduate school. Students are eligible for TRIO if they are a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident enrolled in a 4-year degree at UMA and who are first generation, low income, or have a disability.

Accessibility Services is the department within the Division of Academic Success which is responsible for providing necessary accommodations to students with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Students and prospective students with disabilities should follow this link if they require academic or residential accommodations.

Maine CITE program helps people of all ages and all abilities explore tools and technologies to make life easier. Maine CITE also provides services to caregivers, family members, employers, educators, health care providers, social service providers and others seeking assistive technology information.

Maine CITE services are available to all Maine residents and no documentation of disability is required.