Hours
Monday - 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday - 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday - 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thursday - 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday - 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday - Closed
Sunday - Closed

The athletic department's academic center offers a quiet, monitored, study environment exclusively for student-athletes. Located within the athletic office inside the Curb Event Center, the academic center offers study tables, seven computers to use for class assignments and free printing for academic related purposes only.

Mandatory support services for all new student-athletes:

Academic Counseling Sessions
All new freshmen and transfers must attend, one-on-one counseling meeting with an Academic Support Staff person during their initial semester. During these meetings, the student-athlete and academic counselor discuss class assignments, strategies for communicating with professors, personal challenges and other issues related to academic progress.

Study Hall
All new freshmen must log six hours of study hall time per week during their initial semester while transfers must log three hours. Study hall hours are monitored by Academic Support Staff and reported to head coaches in a weekly report. Student-athletes may complete their weekly study hall requirements at their own pace but must log their hours within designated locations on campus (i.e., the library, the student-athlete academic center in the Curb Event Center or other approved areas). 

Optional Support Services:

Tutorial Assistance
Individual tutoring services are available to Belmont student-athletes at no charge.  Tutors are hired by the athletic department and are typically upper-level students who are selected on the basis of their educational training, classroom performance, and ability to teach.  Tutors must be recommended by a faculty member or qualified administrative personnel within a particular academic area.

How to Request a Tutor
A student-athlete must submit a Tutor Request Form to the Academic Coordinator.  Note: it generally takes about a week to line up a tutor after the Tutor Request Form has been submitted. The Academic Coordinator will provide the student-athlete with the name and phone number of a qualified tutor and will also contact the tutor to notify him or her of the student-athlete's needs.  The student-athlete and tutor will schedule their own session times and locations, and the tutor will report his or her hours to the Academic Coordinator at the end of each month.  Tutorial sessions are not a substitute for class lectures.  All student-athletes are expected to arrive for their tutoring sessions on time and well prepared.  Student-athletes who are repeatedly tardy, unprepared, or who fail to show up for tutoring sessions will lose their free tutoring privileges.

NOTE:  The athletic department will not hire tutors to assist student-athletes in writing papers. Belmont University's Writing Center provides free, one-to-one tutorial assistance to the entire Belmont community.  The tutors who staff the center are all experienced professors of writing. Student-athletes are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the expertise available to them in the Writing Center.  The Academic Coordinator will consider exceptions to this policy only if a professor strongly recommends or requires a writing tutor for a student-athlete.  In these extreme cases, the writing tutor will be assigned and strictly monitored by the faculty member who recommended the assistance or by a faculty member in Belmont's English Department.

Academic Counseling
In addition to the counseling sessions mandated for new freshmen and transfers, one-on-one academic counseling sessions are also available to any student-athletes who request the service and feel they will benefit from the continued structure of the weekly meetings. Also, weekly counseling sessions may be required for student-athletes who are considered "at-risk" for academic problems (as determined by the Academic Coordinator and head coaches).

Career-Related Testing Services
Through Belmont University's Office of Career Services, the Athletic Department offers various testing services and personality assessments to help student-athletes explore their interests and possible career options.