Additional Resources

UNC Greensboro offers many resources and services to support students throughout their academic journeys. Below is a list of internal and external resources for students, with links to their web pages.

We hope you will feel at home here and take advantage of these resources during your time at UNCG as needed. 

See descriptions below.

About These Resources

Descriptions for each of the links, as categorized above:

ACADEMIC RESOURCES 

  • Academic Terminology: Learn more about common terminology you will encounter across the University! 
  • Academic Support/Advising: Academic Advising for undergraduates at UNCG is coordinated within each of the University’s academic units. Exploratory Majors are advised by the Students First Office
  • UNCG Academic Achievement Center: Provides student support services, tutoring, and academic skills programs, and supplemental instruction to aid student success at UNCG. 
  • University Speaking Center: Helps speakers further develop their oral communication confidence and competence. Also provides support in public speaking preparation and delivery, interpersonal communication, and group or team communication. 
  • University Writing Center: Provides assistance for a variety of writing issues, from developing thesis statements and organization to citation styles and last-minute polishing. 
  • University Libraries: Provides support with effective research strategies, utilizing digital media tools, and more! 
  • Other Academic Resources: Learn more about the Office of Strategy & Innovation, Educational Opportunities Programs, New Student Transitions & First Year Experience, and the Transfer Promise Program. 

SUPPORT SERVICES 

  • Student Health Center: Provides counseling and medical support, along with immunizations and insurance information. 
  • Office of Intercultural Engagement: Delivers co-curricular programs to bring students together for the purpose of deepening and broadening intercultural awareness, enhance knowledge and skill around identity and culture by collaborating with various campus and community partners to complement and advance institutional goals for diversity, and promote equity and inclusion. 
  • Office of Accessibility Resources and Services (OARS): For students with different learning or mobility abilities needing accommodations and support to be successful both in the classroom and navigating around campus safely. 
  • Dean of Students: Assists any student who may be experiencing a new transition, academic or personal difficulty, and any crisis or emergency situation. 
  • Office of Student Rights & Responsibilities (OSSR): Supports the University’s mission of preparing students for lives of engaged citizenship and leadership in a global society through advocacy, education, and accountability. 
  • Campus Violence Resource Center: Provides crisis response, advocacy, counseling, and coordination with on- and off-campus services for any UNCG community member impacted by sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, sexual or gender-based harassment, and all other forms of campus violence. 
  • Counseling and Consulting Clinic:  The Vacc Counseling and Consulting Clinic offers individual and group counseling, as well as career assessments and career counseling. 

OTHER CAMPUS RESOURCES 

  • Career Services: Helps students develop their resumé and cover letters and search and apply for jobs or internships. 
  • Spartan Central: A one-stop website containing information about all the business of being a student including: 
  • Resources via the UNCG Students First Office: Serves as an academic one-stop shop for assisting students with academic advising, academic recovery, academic transition, appeals, and graduation planning. Additionally, the office is the centralized academic advising center for all exploratory (undecided) students at UNCG. 
  • UNCG Police Department: A community resource that cares about your safety and security. 

EXTERNAL RESOURCES 

  • Social Security Information 
  • Websites of U.S. Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions: A listing of U.S. embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions throughout the world. 
  • Study in the States: Information regarding the process and rules for studying in the United States as an international F-1 student. 
  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Information pertaining to the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) to track and monitor schools and programs, students, exchange visitors and their dependents throughout the duration of approved participation within the U.S. education system. 
  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: Information regarding forms to apply for employment and change of status. It will also provide you with general information regarding U.S. immigration policies. 
  • International Wire Transfers:  
    • Convera – A service allowing you to transfer money from your home bank account to a U.S. account.  
    • TransferMate can be accessed from your Student Account Center in UNCGenie. You can find a step-by-step guide on how to use TransferMate in the video posted on the right-hand column (below on mobile).
  • Scholarship and Funding Search Guide: A resource to help you apply for scholarships, both internal and external from UNCG, and other resources/guidance to help secure educational funding for international students studying in the United States. 
How to Use TransferMate
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