Office of Student Resources

Office of Student Resources is available to meet the needs of qualifying students. Services include but are not limited to workshops and training on educational, employability and life skills; institutional and community resources and referrals; non-traditional career peer group and resource fairs.  The Office of Student Resources special population student groups include:

• Single parent students who have the primary or joint custody of a dependent child.
• Displaced homemakers who have worked without pay to care for a home and/or family and for that reason have diminished marketable skills; have been dependent on the income of another family member but are no longer supported by that income.
• Economically disadvantaged students who are Pell Grant recipients or who are receiving federal assistance such as Food Stamps, TANF and/or Medicaid.
• Students enrolled in nontraditional programs of study that lead to occupations or fields that have 25 percent or less of their gender employed within the occupation (male nurses, female automotive mechanics).
• Students with limited English proficiency.
• Students with disabilities.
• Homeless Individuals defined as not having a primary residency.
• Foster Care defined as students who were in, or have aged out of the foster care system.
• Active Duty defined as students with parents on active duty in the armed forces. 

The Textbook Lending Program is available to qualifying students. Application forms and electronic submission information is available on the website.

The Special Populations Services offices are located on the Marietta Campus at 980 South Cobb Drive, Marietta, GA 30060, Building C, Offices C-1102A and C-1102B. Phone: 770-975-4023 or 770-528-5802.