Student Affairs Learning Objectives

Strategic Priorities

Progress and Purpose

Through experiences with our programs and services, students will build a greater understanding of self and their relationships with others, take accountability for actions and inactions, establish meaningful relationships and maintain healthy habits.

Practical & Career Development

Through experiences with our programs and services, students will continue to develop and achieve the competencies that broadly prepare them to be successful in their communities and careers.

Curiosity

Through experiences with our programs and services, students will pursue lifelong learning that prepares them to solve problems critically and creatively.

Empathy, Humility & Action

Through experiences with our programs and services, students will engage in action that improves their local and global communities by affirming personal identities and group memberships, enhancing understanding of and respect for human dignity and disrupting biases within themselves.

Student Affairs strives to engage the SIUE community in services and programs that make lifelong learning possible. This strategic plan is designed to focus our efforts on providing a SIUE student experience in which every student feels supported by the campus environment, connected to the institution and prepared for the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Student Success: Strengthen student engagement, persistence, academic achievement and subsequent post-collegiate opportunities.

Staff Success: Focus on organizational health and invest in division staff throughout their employment by evaluating needs and engaging in ongoing professional development.

Contemporary Co-Curriculum: Provide optimal delivery of high-impact experiential co-curricular programs to enhance student learning and development while pursuing degree completion.

Infrastructure and Resources: Provide fiscally sound and innovative stewardship of Division funds and facilities to effectively support student needs.

Collaborative Partnerships: Develop, engage and sustain purposeful internal and external partnerships that reimagine student learning in programs and services.

Inclusion and Equity: Advance an inclusive culture and equitable practices and outcomes.

The Alestle

• The Alestle resumed its annual First Amendment Free Food Festival, where they taught participants the importance of their first amendment rights. The event was co-sponsored by the St. Louis Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the SIUE Mass Communications department

• The Alestle staff won 5 national awards and 15 state awards, including a 1st place award for Best Overall News Story by the Illinois College Press Association

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