The Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE) at Saint Peter’s University provides students with the academic advising, programming, tools and resources needed to successfully manage the college experience and achieve their academic goals. In collaboration with the schools and colleges CASE assists students with the transition to college-level work and supports their academic endeavors throughout their entire college career. The following programs and services are provided to students in their first year and beyond:

• Academic Advising (specializes in first year advising)
• Transition & Exploratory Advising
• Think 30
• Placement testing & Registration
• Peer Mentoring
• Academic Standing

The STEM Engagement & Empowerment Center offers academic, career, and student life support to enable students to achieve their academic and career goals. The STEMEC is a multi-purpose space used for tutoring sessions, workshops, and programs. It can also be used for meetings, collaboration, and supplemental instruction sessions.

• Peer Tutoring
• Online tutoring
• Loaner Programs: textbooks, calculators, Laptops, chemistry modeling kits

The Care and Outreach Coordinator will serve as an advocate for students and collaborates with both on campus support services and external agencies to provide resources to STEM students. These services may include childcare services; transportation; health care; financial counseling; employment assistance; counseling; food assistance; housing assistance; and emergency relief.

The Writing Studio offers in-person and remote tutoring in writing and other content areas to undergraduate and graduate students with a specific focus on assisting underserved populations (Hispanic/Latinx and low-income, including English language learners). Through its holistic and research-based approach to tutoring, the Writing Studio encourages lifelong learning and is committed to students’ academic, personal, and professional development.

The Theresa and Edward O'Toole Library provides:

• Citation help
• Research consults
• Computers
• Study/collaboration spaces
• Access online resources

The Center for Career Engagement and Experiential Learning (CEEL) provides professional guidance and resources for lifelong career development. CEEL strives to prepare and empower students to make informed career choices that will lead to meaningful careers and purposeful lives. Through our diverse network of employer and community partners we connect students to internships and professional opportunities, and assist them in obtaining gainful employment in our ever-changing urban and global environment.

• Internships - earn academic credit!
• Career readiness (resume building, etc.)
• On-campus jobs

The First Strut Center serves as a place for study and support for first-generation students. The Center provides book vouchers to reduce or eliminate the cost of textbooks for financially eligible students. It focuses on parental/family engagement aimed at involving parents or guardians as partners with their students’ education and solidifying the familial relationship with SPU. The program will also implement family connection communication strategies to engage families, build awareness, promote events, provide resources and share call-to-action notices at critical stages of the student enrollment cycle.

The Male Resource Center (MRC) serves as a place to increase academic, social and cultural support for BIPOC male students. The development of the MRC is funded by a recently awarded FIPSE Postsecondary Student Success Grant. The MRC will accelerate institutional efforts to close equity gaps that underlie academic achievement gaps for male students. The MRC will provide formal and informal engagement opportunities that center around culturally focused programming and social-support activities led by staff members whose identities and lived experiences match those of students who access the Center. This new resource will prioritize activities that improve male students’ sense of belonging at SPU, building on research showing that access to formal and informal support, peer relationships, faculty mentoring and programming that engenders pride through close connections and personal achievement facilitate underserved men’s success.

The Office of Disability Services at Saint Peter’s University is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible learning environment where all students can thrive. Guided by the Jesuit value of cura personalis, we partner with students, faculty, and staff to remove barriers, promote equity, and empower students with disabilities to achieve their academic, personal and professional goals. Through advocacy, education and individualized support, we affirm the dignity of every student and contribute to a campus community rooted in justice, compassion, and respect.

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS): Many students seek services to address issues that may interfere with their academic progress, social development, or personal growth. Students are encouraged to contact CAPS if they need assistance or if they are concerned about the well-being of someone else. CAPS is staffed by experienced, licensed clinicians trained to assist with a variety of issues commonly affecting college students stress, depression, anxiety, family/relationship difficulties, substance abuse, eating disorders, academic challenges, sexual assault and various other concerns. The center offers in-person and teletherapy via a video conferencing platform, individual, couple or group counseling modalities. We also provide crisis intervention, case management and, when appropriate, referrals to other resources on and/or off campus. Additionally, CAPS provides workshops, presentations, a mental health & wellness library, discussion groups, and gatekeeper training to educate community members on mental health issues.

The Center for Inclusive Excellence and Campus Ministry welcomes people of all religious traditions and spiritual seeking to share and learn from one another as they participate with us. At Saint Peter’s University we uphold and promote our Catholic and Jesuit traditions by educating students towards wholeness and always striving to be men and women for others. Expand your capacity to serve and love others through Campus Ministry. Find the freedom to take a deeper dive into what it means to live a life of faith. Campus Ministry provides opportunities to our students that allow them to know themselves, the world we live in and God more fully.

Community service

The America Reads Program is a federally funded tutoring and enrichment program. Students who qualify for federal work-study may apply for a tutoring position. Tutors work in 3 schools: Resurrection School, Saint Aloysius School, and the Team Walker Youth Program. Students work with children from grades 2-9, providing homework help, and enrichment.

The Junkyard Dogs is a service program that seeks to foster pride and care in Jersey City by physically cleaning up its streets and spreading awareness of the need to  maintain and respect it.

Food and Clothes Pantry - volunteers distribute food, clothes and toiletries to those in need.

Campus Kitchen - takes unused food and repackages it into healthy meals to be delivered to people who are hungry. Volunteers are needed to repackage food, deliver the meals and pick up donations.

Music Program - The Aidan C. McMullen Chorale is the concert choir of the university. It is a mixed choir consisting of students majoring in various programs offered by the university program, as well as faculty, staff, and alumni. The Chorale is committed to perform choral literature from a broad range of styles, genres, cultures, and contexts.

Retreats (5 across the academic year) - our retreats introduce various themes and modes of prayer that welcome students of all faiths, backgrounds and beliefs. The Office of Campus Ministry is committed to cultivating the faith of all Saint Peter’s students. Our robust retreat program offers students a chance to explore more deeply God’s presence in their lives.

Health Services is a nurse-directed college health facility. We offer first aid, acute illness care, and routine health and nutrition assessments. A physician’s assistant is available one day a week to examine, diagnose and treat students in cases of acute illness. Resource and education materials are available upon request.