The Student Success Center: Overview
To help students cope with – and overcome – the many obstacles and challenges that they face during their degree studies, the Student Success Center serves as a one-stop-shop for every aspect of the student campus experience, from before students even enroll through to graduation and job placement.
Among the key services it provides:
- Financial aid: Scholarships and other forms of financial aid can transform lives. Need-based scholarships ensure that students can attain a higher education and realize their full potential, regardless of their economic background. Merit-based scholarships reward exceptional academic achievement, fostering a culture of excellence and motivating students to fulfill their potential.
- Academic and personal mentoring: All TAU students are eligible to receive mentoring that aims to reduce drop-out rates by helping them improve their academic achievements, integrate smoothly into campus life, successfully complete their degree and maximize their potential.
- Intensive support for students affected by the war: Since October 7, the Center has extended vital assistance – financial, academic and psychological – to students who performed reserve duty, survivors of the Nova massacre and evacuees from Israel’s north and south.
- Special needs support: Identifying and supporting students with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders, as well as offering guidance to improve the students’ learning capacity.
- Mental health: Providing subsidized psychological counseling.Community orientation: Via TAU Impact, a ground-breaking initiative that embeds social activism into the teaching curriculum, the Center offers undergraduate students dozens of academic workshops that combine theoretical knowledge with hands-on community engagement, in collaboration with NGO's, government bodies and the local community.
- Faculty-based student retention: A broad range of student retention services are mediated by educational counselors in every one of TAU’s nine faculties. Faculty-based counselors aim to identify those students who are falling behind in their studies at as early a stage as possible via ongoing, proactive interaction, with a view to offering them the support they need and thereby preventing them from dropping out altogether.
- Career development: Students benefit from career development and job placement/internship services in cooperation with the faculties, which enable them to gain professional experience during their studies.
