Student Support Services is a part of the TRIO Federal Programs of the Department of Education. Student Support Services-Fayette currently serves 150 participants and Student Support Services-Hamilton serves 200. The mission of the Student Support Services is to assist first generation and/or low-income college students and students with disabilities achieve a college degree. Research has shown that these students are much less likely to complete a four-year degree program and beyond.

Services Provided by Student Support Services:

• Peer tutoring
• Academic advising
• Career guidance
• Transfer assistance
• Financial aid counseling
• Grant-aid supplements to qualified participants
• English and math computer lab assistance
• Cultural events
• Study skills
• Equipment checkout privileges
• Limited book loan service (Hamilton Campus only)
  

Wanda Jackson
Fayette Director
205-111-1111 ext. 5149
wjackson@bscc.edu

The mission of Bevill State Community College is to make education accessible and affordable for its constituents and to provide opportunities for educational growth.
The chief goal of the Bevill State Community College Upward Bound Programs is providing services to its participants that will assist them in preparing for and achieving success in an institution of higher learning. Selection criteria for Upward Bound participants include: low-income, potential first-generation college student, and academic need. Two-thirds of the selected participants must be both low-income and potential first- generation college student with academic need.

Upward Bound - Fayette serves eleven schools located within the five counties of the Bevill State Community College Service Area: Winfield High School in Marion County; Carbon Hill High School in Walker County; Lamar County and South Lamar High School in Lamar County; Hubbertville, Berry, and Fayette County High School in Fayette County; Gordo, Pickens County, Carrollton, and Aliceville High School in Pickens County.

Upward Bound - Hamilton serves nine high schools in Lamar, Marion, and Winston County.

Upward Bound - Sumiton Campus serves nine high schools in Walker and Jefferson County. Those schools are Cordova, Corner, Curry, Dora, Minor, Oak Grove, Oakman, Parrish and Walker.

• Instruction in math, foreign language, laboratory sciences, literature, and composition
• Tutorials for academic subjects
• Mentoring for careers and college life
• College entrance exam preparation
• Counseling for academic, personal, and career goals
• Financial aid assistance
• Exposure to academic and cultural events
• Seminars to enhance awareness in the areas of academics, social skills, health and physical maintenance, lifestyles, and values clarification
• Monthly stipends
• Summer college credit classes at Bevill State with tuition and fees paid by the project
• Work-study positions to expose participants to careers requiring a postsecondary degree