Student Support

Student Parent Resource Center (SPRC)

Where: 1199 Garden City Road, Room 107 ( University Village) What do they do: Offers supportive environment to obtain info and resources for all student parents and their families on and off campus. SPRC offers a number of services, including: advocacy, academic support, financial assistance, childcare, and more. Who do they help: Students who are parents

Women*s Student Services

Where: Basement of Student Services Building What do they do: Fostering engaging conversations about intersectional feminism, building collaborations and coalitions with other student services and campus office and organizations, and supporting and empowering all students in working towards an inclusive community. They provide engaging programs, relevant information, timely services, and resources for women students on campus. Who do they help: Women students, and any students who experience gender-based discrimination. *Women's Student Services is inclusive of transgender students.

Student Veterans Resource Center

Where: Basement of Student Services building What do they do: SVRC is dedicated to promoting the educational, career, and personal advancement of military-connected students. Who do they help: Military connected students

Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities (RCPD)

Where: Bessey Hall What do they do: RCPD offers a number of services, including granting visas to students to ensure that students' accommodations are met by staff and faculty. Other services include: approving service animals, upgrading classrooms to be more accessible. Who do they help: RCPD offers services for students and employees with disabilities, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing, those with learning disabilities, brain injuries, psychiatric, and various chronic health conditions.

TRIO Student Support Services Program

Where: Bessey Hall What do they do: The program propels students at Michigan State University towards academic success and graduation through coaching, tutoring, advising, and first-year seminars. Who do they help: first-generation college students, defined by MSU as students whose parents have not completed undergraduate studies at a four-year university.

The Writing Center

Where: Bessey Hall; satellites across campus What do they do: Provides one-on-ones and group writing consultation, various writing-specific workshops, as well as writing groups for grad students and faculty. Who do they help: Any undergrad student; specific programs for grad students and faculty

Council of Radical and Ethnic Students (CORES)

Where: CORES cultural communities have rooms across campus; visit OCAT's website for a complete list What do they do: CORES works to promote social and cultural understanding for individuals on our campus. They aim to increase exposure of cultural events & initiatives, create cross-cultural collaborative events, and advocate for social reforms (e.g., creating consistent, sustainable cultural sensitivity training for staff on campus). Who they are: Asian Pacific American Student Organization (APASO), Black Student Alliance (BSA), Culturas de las Razas Unidas (CRU), North American Indigenous Student Organization (NAISO)

Council of Professional Students (COPS)

Where: Communities have rooms across campus What they do: COPS works to promote social and cultural understanding for individuals on our campus. They aim to increase exposure of cultural events & initiatives, create cross-cultural collaborative events, and advocate for social reforms (e.g., creating consistent, sustainable cultural sensitivity training for staff on campus). Who they are: Alliance for Queer and Allied Students (Alliance), Arab Cultural Society (ACS), Campus Interfaith Council (CIC), Council for Students with Disabilities (CSD), International Student Association (ISA), Jewish Student Union (JSU), Muslim Student Association (MSA), Student Veterans of America (SVA), Women's Council

Career Services Network

Where: First floor of Student Services Building. What do they do: Career & Job Search Advising, Skill & Interest Assessment, Graduate School Planning, Interview Preparation, Resume & Cover Letter Review, Advising for Ph.D. Students. Who do they help: CSN offers services to students and recent alumni up to two years after graduation!

Office of International Students and Scholars

Where: International Center What do they do: OISS provides advising on US immigration regulation, conducts orientations and other special programming to help students integrate into academic and social life, serve as liaisons with domestic and foreign governments, etc. Who do they help: International Students

Math Learning Center

Where: Main location is in STEM R2110; satellite locations across campus What do they do: Free help and tutoring for most 100 and 200 level math courses, and even some upper-level courses. Who do they help: any undergraduate MSU student

Prevention, Outreach, and Education Department

Where: Olds Hall What do they do: Empower community commitment to prevent gender-based violence through education, outreach, and social change. Poe uses multi-disciplinary, community-driven, and trauma informed approaches. Who do they help: POE serves as a catalyst to mobilize personal responsibility. Poe builds coalitions and partnerships across the university by engaging a broad range of students; Serves staff, faculty, and students to become advocated for change.

Center for Survivors

Where: Second floor of Student Services Building What do they do: They provide free and confidential individual counseling, advocacy, and support groups, 24-hour hotline, crisis chat, and they have a therapy dog named Justice! Who do they help: The CFS works with sexual assault survivors and all others who are affected by sexual violence.

MOSAIC: The Multicultural Unity Center

Where: Second floor of the Union Building What do they do: They offer physical space and engaged learning experiences where more purposeful interaction across differences can take place. They offer the Multi Racial Unity Living Experience - Intercultural Aide Program (MRULE-ICA). Who do they help: They connect students, faculty and staff to a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives across campus.

Office of Cultural & Academic Transitions

Where: Third floor of student services Building What do they do: They offer constructs supportive cultural, social and educational communities that actively involve students in learning. OCAT supports individual students in their navigation of cross-cultural encounters, and in their own understanding, exploration and development of cultural identity.. Who do they help: OCAT strives to bring together individuals as well as groups of students from diverse racial, ethnic, international, and domestic backgrounds

MSU Sexual Assault Healthcare Program

Where: second floor Student Services Building What do they do: The MSU Sexual Assault Healthcare Program is staffed 24/7 by specialized forensic nurses and provides health care services at the visitors' request. Who do they help: Services are free and available to adults who have been sexually assaulted within the last 5 days.

The Gender and Sexuality Campus Center

Where: third floor of Student Services Building What do they do: The mission of the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center is to celebrate, affirm, and support Queer and Trans individuals and communities at MSU. They enact this work through advocacy, education, programming, and community-building. Who do they help: People of all genders and sexualities, centering the voices of Black and Indigenous people of color.