Tutoring

Student Support Services
54 Joyce Kilmer Ave
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Phone: (732) 445-4001 x170
Fax: (732) 445-1488

SSS FAQs:

Student Support Services is a federally funded program, which is designed to increase the retention and graduation rates of first-generation and low-income students, as well as students with a disability. In addition, SSS is charged with increasing the rate at which this population enrolls in graduate school.

SSS provides undergraduate students with one-on-one tutoring, as well as career and academic coaching in one-on-one and group workshop format.

Please contact our office for details.
(732) 445-4001 x164 or x170

Please contact our office for details.
(732) 445-4001 x164 or x170

To qualify for SSS a student must be a U.S. citizen, or a national, or a recipient of federal financial aid. In addition, students must be first-generation, and/or low-income, and/or have a documented disability.

Interested students may complete an online application at http://www.sss.rutgers.edu/SSSApplication.asp and must submit the first two pages of their parents' 1040 (or if they are an independent student claiming themselves, their own 1040). If there are available participant slots, eligible students will be contacted to alert them of their eligibility.

Yes. Small amounts of grant aid are awarded to program participants during the fall and spring semesters. For eligibility go to: http://www.sss.rutgers.edu/grantAid.asp

The main office is A321 Lucy Stone Hall on the Livingston Campus. The phone number is 732-445-4001 ext.170. Our website address is: http://www.sss.rutgers.edu/ and our email address is: russs@rci.rutgers.edu.

TRiO refers to a series of programs, funded under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, created to assist disadvantaged Americans in overcoming class, social and cultural barriers to higher education. The term TRiO was coined to represent the initial three programs, Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Services.