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Mission

The Division of Student Affairs fosters and celebrates student success.

Vision

The Division of Student Affairs cultivates the educational, cultural, social and emotional development of É«»¨ÌÃ’s students to become fully engaged leaders and citizens who demonstrate integrity. 

The division’s educators are guided by values of:

• student-centeredness
• inclusion
• collaboration
• accountability
• integrity
• innovation
• excellence
• health and safety
• community

Priorities

This mission and these values provide the foundation for a multi-year plan focused on seven priorities:

Priority One: Collaboratively Create a Holistic Student Success Strategy

É«»¨Ìà STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT: Educate, Innovate, Engage, Include, Support

Strategies

• Formalize the First Year Experience.
• Expand high impact practices in the division.
• Inventory and elevate co-curricular learning.
• Initiate proactive measures to provide support for students facing barriers to persistence and completion.
• Intentionally strive to create access and equity.

Priority Two: Position É«»¨Ìà as National Leader for Integrative Student Health and Wellbeing Initiatives

É«»¨Ìà Strategic Plan Alignment: Educate, Support

STRATEGIES

• Identify co-curricular opportunities to support holistic health and wellbeing.
• Develop infrastructure to implement a coordinated clinical care network.
• Create senior-level role to provide leadership for the new health and wellbeing thematic area.
• Expand and enhance health promotion and wellbeing educational programming.

Priority Three: Build Community and Support Students’ Sense of Belonging

É«»¨Ìà Strategic Plan Alignment: Engage, Include, Support, Sustain

STRATEGIES

• Become central to creating a culture of lifelong engagement.
• leverage and coordinate student support
• Strengthen intentional support for micro-communities, including first-generation students, BIPOC, LGBTQIA⁺, transfer students, veterans, and student parents.
• Increase students' capacity to engage in cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution using a restorative approach.
• Expand opportunities for community building in experiences common to all divisional units.

Priority Four: Enhance Student Affairs Leadership Development Programs

É«»¨Ìà Strategic Plan Alignment: Engage, Include

STRATEGIES

• Using the strengths framework, establish a shared leadership definition and language for curricular and co-curricular use.
• Foster a culture of leadership by offering transformative student experiences across the division.
• Formalize assessment around student leadership
• Build on É«»¨ÌÃ’s reputation and commitment to civic engagement and community accountability.

Priority Five: Prioritize Staff Development and Wellness

É«»¨Ìà Strategic Plan Alignment: Educate, Innovate, Engage, Include, Sustain

STRATEGIES

• Expand leadership development and mentorship opportunities for staff.
• Launch communities of practice to cross-cut functional areas.
• Offer professional development opportunities focusing on core competencies.
• Establish common welcome and onboarding experiences for all new staff.
• Build staff’s capacity for inclusive excellence.
• Increase awareness of staff support resources.

Priority Six: Re-vision the Divisional Assessment Model and Approach

É«»¨Ìà Strategic Plan Alignment: Educate, Include, Support

STRATEGIES

• Build divisional/staff capacity to engage in meaningful and systemic assessment at the unit and divisional levels.
• Establish common divisional learning outcomes and expectations around contributing to and reporting on divisional and university priorities.
• Employ the equity toolkit to engage in routine equity-centered assessment.

Priority Seven: Steward Current Resources and Generate Additional Resources for Strategic Initiatives

É«»¨Ìà Strategic Plan Alignment: Sustain, Support, Innovate

STRATEGIES

• Build transparency and improve understanding of budget, accounting and financial planning for all divisional staff to foster trust, stewardship and collaboration.
• Create and hire for a dedicated fundraising position for the Division of Student Affairs.
• Develop a long-term divisional strategy to expand the Division of Student Affairs advancement.
• Develop an ongoing collaborative approach to fiscal and capital planning initiatives that promote space optimization, greater equity, and stewardship of resources across the division.