With 18 full-time staff members, the Thornton Athletics Student Life Center offers academic counseling services, a career development program, a student development program, a comprehensive tutoring program, a writing lab, a math lab, a computer lab, and accommodations for students with special needs.

Student-athletes at Tennessee receive top-flight academic support through the Thornton Athletics Student Life Center.

Among some of the services provided are:

• Provides student-athletes with resources for future work
• Workshops on personal development issues, resume building, and interviewing
• Opportunities for community service
• Annual career fair

• Provides a quiet, equipped, and supportive environment for student learning
• Objective-Based Study Hall is a program for at-risk student-athletes
• Mentors assist students in organizational and study skills
• Designed to provide students with a structured and supervised study environment conducive to learning

• Free tutoring is available in nearly any subject

• Writing Lab staff work with student-athletes at all stages of the writing process and for any discipline
• Staffed by tutors who have taught writing and literature courses

• Provides individual assistance and group study sessions related to math

• Four components: curriculum, research incentives and peer mentoring.

• Program dealing with issues that student-athletes need to be aware of in order to be successful during their first year and beyond

• Comprehensive academic support program in conjunction with Office of Disability Services
• Assists male and female student athletes with disabilities (physical, psychological, and learning).

• The University of Tennessee Athletics Departments actively recruit student-athletes from diverse backgrounds, including students from foreign countries.
• Our international ranks represent 6 continents and 17 countries.

• The RAC Program assist former student-athletes achieve their goal of graduation from the University of Tennessee.