Resources for students

Conflict assistance and campus reporting resources

These resources provide support and guidance to navigate and resolve interpersonal or academic conflicts effectively within the academic or research environment.

• Student Assistance Center: assists students in understanding university policies and procedures, accessing campus resources, and supporting students in crisis.
• Office for Access & Equity
• Office for Student Conflict Resolution offers multiple services for students involved in disputes or interpersonal conflicts or those experiencing harassment, charges of violation of the student conduct code, or similar problems. Services include mediation, referrals, and student discipline.
• Campus Belonging Report: a platform to submit reports of behaviors that negatively impact their or others’ sense of belonging. 
• Title IX Office: This office can take reports, connect individuals to available resources and support services, facilitate academic accommodations and adjustments, and review reporting options. It can also answer questions regarding the reporting process or the policy.
  • Email: titleixcoordinator@illinois.edu
•  Student Legal Services: This organization provides free legal services and awareness of the law to UIUC students. Its attorneys provide consultations, advice, representation, and education on various legal issues.
• Off-Campus Community Living: provides support to students residing in privately owned apartments and homes.
• Emergency Dean: supports students experiencing health and safety emergency situations in which an immediate university response is needed and cannot wait until the next business day.
• University Ethics and Compliance Office: students can report what they believe to be fraud, abuse, mismanagement, misconduct, waste, or other wrongdoing at the University.

Wellness and health

Resources and support systems that promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being throughout students’ academic journey.

• Confidential Resources - Campus:
  • Counseling Center: This center provides services to help students address academic, relational, social, and emotional concerns. Its staff is trained and prepared to help students through whatever issues they may need, whether mental health or adjustment issues such as the transition to graduate school, work-life balance, or homesickness.
    • Suicide Prevention Team: 217-333-3704
  • McKinley Health Center (Mental Health): offers evaluation and consultation with psychiatrists, clinical nurse specialists, and social workers. Sexually transmitted infection testing is available, and students can pick up Pan B at the health center.
  • Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education: counseling services available for military-connected students (veterans, guard/reserves, and dependents).
  • We Care: Sexual misconduct, support, response, and prevention resources.
  • Response, Evaluation, and Crisis Help (REACH): a collaborative team which brings together police officers and social workers as a single patrol unit to meet the needs of community members who are experiencing mental health crises.
  • Psychological Services Center: This center is operated by the Department of Psychology and serves university students, faculty, and staff. The center charges for its services, and a sliding scale is offered, depending on family size and income.
• Confidential Resources – Community:
  • Rape Advocacy, Counseling, and Education Services (RACES): 24-hour crisis hotline, medical and legal advocacy, counseling services, and public education and training. All services are free of charge.
    • Phone number: 217-384-4444
  • Courage Connection Domestic Violence Hotline: provides housing and services for individuals or families who are victims of domestic violence. They offer safety planning, counseling, court advocacy, assistance in obtaining orders of protection, and shelter services free of charge.
    • Phone number: 217-384-4390
  • Champaign County Crisis Line (Rosecrance): offers a 24-hour mental health crisis hotline and provides a range of prevention, intervention, and behavioral health treatment services for individuals and families.
    • Phone number: 217-359-4141
  • The Trevor Project Crisis Services: crisis counselors are trained to answer calls, chats, or texts from LGBTQ+ young people who reach out on their free, confidential, and secure 24/7 service when they are struggling with issues such as coming out, LGBTQ+ identity, depression, and suicide.
  • Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress.
• Medical Resources: all of these facilities provide a medical exam, STD/STI preventive testing and treatment, emergency contraception, and date rape drug testing.
  • McKinley Health Center (Medical):
    • Provides medical care after a sexual assault
  • Carle Foundation Hospital:
    • Sexual assault forensic exams conducted by a SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) are offered ONLY at Carle Emergency Room.
    • Carle Mobile Health Clinic: affordable, non-urgent medical services with practitioners experienced in pediatrics, family medicine, and women’s health.
• Safety:
  • SafeWalks: Free nightly service provided by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students, faculty, and staff to have a trained student patrol officer meet you and walk you to your destination.
  • SafeRides: The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District offers limited safe rides at night.
• Food Insecurity:
  • Everybody Eats: a campus-wide initiative to ensure that members of the Illini community have access to a hot meal and are provided with adequate nutrition.
  • Eastern Illinois Food Bank: operates a handful of emergency feeding programs to help meet unmet needs and alleviate hunger among the most vulnerable populations.
  • ARC Food Assistance & Well-Being Program: located in the rear of the ARC instructional kitchen, it serves as a shopping-style pantry currently open to Illinois students with an active i-card.
  • Jubilee Café: offers freshly cooked meals to college students and other local residents who encounter food insecurity.
  • Daily Bread Soup Kitchen: https://dailybreadsoupkitchen.com/
  • Local Food Pantries: https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/il-champaign

Academic and career assistance

Tutoring services, study resources, and academic counseling to enhance learning and success in coursework.

• Accessible Study Space in Main Library: The university library has an accessible study room for students with disabilities. The room is on the first floor of the main library, next to the information desk. It is equipped with different types of seating, a screen magnifier, and the standard accessibility software suite. Click here to reserve the accessible study room.
• Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education: Services include academic and career coaching to support progress and address barriers and peer and professional mentoring to foster community and networking.
• Disability Resources and Educational Services: ensures that qualified individuals with disabilities are afforded an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the university's programs, services, and activities through the identification and enactment of reasonable accommodations.
• Office of Minority Student Affairs: From outside-the-classroom experiences to physical and emotional wellness, leadership opportunities, global awareness, safety, fun, and career preparation, OMSA supports all aspects of student life in Illinois.

Community and belonging

• Asian American Cultural Center (AACC): promotes cross-cultural understanding of Asian American and Asian international experiences and provides educational and cultural support for Asians and Asian Americans in our university community.
• Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center: provides a network of programs and support services promoting the individual, social, cultural, and academic well-being of Illinois’ African American students.
• Gender and Sexuality Resource Center fosters an open, safe, and inclusive environment for people of all sexualities and gender identities. The center seeks to help in the efforts to address homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heterosexist attitudes and beliefs on campus.
  • Gender-Inclusive Housing Options: find information on this site to explore living options that accommodate your gender identity or gender expression.
• La Casa Cultural Latina promotes a welcoming and dynamic atmosphere through the development of educational, cultural, socio-political, and social programs that lead to greater recruitment, retention, advancement, and empowerment of Latina/o students.
• Native American House serves as a support and resource center for Native American students and provides events and programs throughout the year that allow students to enrich their cultural and academic experiences at UIUC.
• Women’s Resource Center: committed to supporting female students and serves as the designated provider of confidential advising services, offering advocacy and support services to students, faculty, and staff who have experienced sexual misconduct (sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, stalking, and/or dating/domestic violence).
  • Campus Lactation Space Guide: https://wrc.illinois.edu/resources/wrc-campus-resources/campus-lactation-space-guide
  • Confidential Advisors: wrcadvocacy@illinois.edu
• Student-Parents at Illinois: a platform for identifying resources, locating policies, learning about programs, and connecting to peers.
  • Child Care Resource Service (CCRS): resource and referral service serving parents in Champaign, Douglas, Iroquois, Macon, Piatt, and Vermillion counties. It helps parents locate available childcare providers in East Central Illinois.
  • Child Care Access Means Parents in School Grant (CCAMPIS): supports the participation of low-income parents in secondary education through the provision of campus-based child care services.
• International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS): provides culturally sensitive services to our international population through advising, immigration services, programming, advocacy, and outreach.
• Illini Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life aims to create a pluralistic environment that welcomes and engages as many students as possible in exploring and celebrating Judaism.
• Salaam Middle East & North Africa Cultural Center (MENA): supports the success, inclusion, and belonging of those who identify with and want to learn more about MENA
• Illinois-Coalition Assisting Undocumented Students’ Education (I-CAUSE): alliance of undocumented students at UIUC for representation, resource gathering, and access to post-secondary education.
• Diversity & Social Justice Education: provides workshops, training, and courses designed to create a transformative experience at UIUC.

Financial resources

• Graduate College Fellowship Office: https://grad.illinois.edu/fellowships/about
• Career Exploration Internship Fellowship: https://grad.illinois.edu/career-exploration-fellowship.
• Financial Wellness: https://extension.illinois.edu/cfiv/financial-wellness-college-students
• Office of Student Financial Aid: contact for any questions pertaining to financial aid issues.
  • https://osfa.illinois.edu/
• Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation: https://research.illinois.edu/

Graduate student-specific resources

• 2023-2024 Graduate College Handbook and Policies: covers academic policies and requirements pertaining to graduate students and administrative policies for programs, units, and staff.
• Graduate College Petition Process: access to forms needed to request academic and policy exceptions.
• Grievance Policy and Procedures for Graduate Students:
• Graduate College Student Success Unit: offers individualized assistance with sensitive issues, questions, and problems affecting a graduate student’s academic career.
  •  gradsuccess@illinois.edu or 217-333-4610