American Studies

Here at the Academic & Career Engagement & Success (ACES) Center, we’re focused on supporting and empowering students and alumni throughout their academic and career journeys.

UMass Boston has the resources you need to succeed. Learn how to join our free individual and group tutoring sessions through our Center for Academic Excellence, tap into our Academic and Career Engagement and Success (ACES) Center to explore internships, and explore all of our departments in Student Equity, Access, and Success (SEAS) that come together to support your success at UMass Boston and beyond.

The Center for Academic Excellence offers courses, academic coaching, tutoring, and mentoring with the goal of helping students to succeed at UMass Boston.

The Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) Tutoring program brings quality content based (what to learn) and process based (how to learn) academic support to all UMass Boston students in a variety of convenient and accessible formats, engaging students academically where they are and how they operate as learners.

Adding value to your university education: It’s what the Testing Center is all about. Our assessment services realistically measure your skill levels in key areas.

The university-wide Writing Center provides free services for undergraduate and graduate students to support their academic and professional writing at any stage of the writing process.

The Center for Academic Excellence offers courses, academic coaching, tutoring, and mentoring with the goal of helping students to succeed at UMass Boston.

This guide provides students with a wide range of web resources aimed to help bring about plagiarism awareness and prevention.

The university-wide Writing Center provides free services for undergraduate and graduate students to support their academic and professional writing at any stage of the writing process.

The mission of U-ACCESS is to help UMass Boston students meet their basic needs so they can achieve academic success. This office also provides leadership development and inspires student agency in mitigating systemic poverty. Along with various services to fulfill student needs, the office provides students with work and internship opportunities to empower them to fight campus poverty and support their peers.

The Office of Student Leadership and Community Engagement enhances the student experience through the development of local community engagement programs, leadership development opportunities, service trips, and more.