Your success in both college and life is what drives the SMC Experience. The SMCX Team offers a variety of resources to help you be successful at SMC, and we are always here to assist one-on-one as well.

SMC students have one advisor that supports them in all areas of success from enrollment to employment. This includes scheduling your classes, academic success and recovery, and career planning and job searching. This model allows you to get to know your advisor better and have someone that truly understands how to help you reach your goals with SMC!

The SMC Tutoring Center is free to students and has a fantastic variety of specific class help. The SMCX Success team expands on specific tutoring; we focus on the principles behind how to do better in classes on a foundational level.

Academic Resources Include:

• How to use a planner to organize your work
• Techniques for how to study and retain information better

Three Ways to Access FREE Tutoring:

• In-person Tutoring on the first floor of the Walker Building
• Online Tutoring via Microsoft Teams with an SMC peer tutor
• Online tutoring through Upswing

SMC's first year programs are designed to not only offer you an introduction to life on campus, but also to help you develop key skills that will help you be successful in both college and life.

SMC's orientation program is required for all first-year students to help you become acquainted with campus and get you started on the right path to success at SMC! You'll meet fellow incoming students, get to know the campus, and meet with various faculty and staff around campus who will be vital to a smooth first semester at SMC.

Experience Orientation Days Include:

• Welcome from the President
• Meet the SMCX Team
• Social activities to get to know your fellow students
• Student Success & Academic Resources
• Career Services (Internship Opportunities, Jobs on Campus, etc.)
• I.T. & Virtual Learning Help
• Campus Involvement

All new SMC students are required to take SMC 101. This important course kicks off your first semester at SMC by preparing you for a career after college. SMC 101 covers such topics as:

• Time management
• Studying techniques
• Goal setting & achieving
• Major & career exploration
• Money management
• Effective note taking, paper writing, and test taking in college
• Valuing and amplifying diversity
• Leadership and working effectively with others
• Maintaining wellness during your college experience

Spartanburg Methodist College defines student success as the processes that are most likely to lead to positive academic, economic, and professional outcomes for students. We measure success quantitatively (academic performance, graduation rate, employment rate), as well as qualitatively (student involvement, personal and professional growth). Ultimately, SMC believes that students are successful when they demonstrate self-reliance, academic achievement, a sense of responsibility and purpose, and the ability to secure gainful employment in a chosen career.