The Division of Student Affairs dedicates its staff and resources to actively engage students in an intentional learning experience. Student Affairs encourages students to develop life-long respect and responsibility for self and others. Student Affairs expects learners to embrace diversity, intellectual courage, personal achievement, integrity, and social responsibility. Student Affairs' staff, services, programs and facilities reflect the Division's commitment to encourage every student to think, reflect, imagine, connect and act for the betterment of self and community. As an integral partner in the academic process, the Division of Student Affairs participates in the UNCW vision of preparing its graduates for a lifetime of learning, achievement, and service.
Identity Statement
The Division of Student Affairs cultivates a campus community optimizing student learning. Our offices, programs, activities and facilities support student development in civic and community engagement, informed reasoning, effective communication, personal responsibility, pluralistic maturity and well-being.
Core Values
- Diversity
- Intellectual Courage
- Personal Achievement
- Integrity
- Social Responsibility
Diversity
By holding diversity as a core value, we commit to honoring and learning from the experience of all individuals, moving beyond tokenism into a transformative experience for ourselves and individuals who interact with the division. Valuing individual diversity means using the strengths and different perspectives that each person offers as a result of his or her culture, religion, ethnicity, gender, race, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, and age. We intentionally create an environment that challenges our assumptions and increases our awareness of historical, national, and global issues that influence our world view.
Intellectual Courage
We provide opportunities for students to think critically, reflectively and creatively by ensuring an open-minded atmosphere that allows students to learn how to think independently and fairly. We value the courage to honestly consider ideas, beliefs or viewpoints thus creating a community that embraces dynamic learning.
Personal Achievement
We provide opportunities for an individual's life-long commitment to accomplish worthwhile objectives through practice and perseverance. An individual strives for personal and collective success through a process of prioritizing values, defining goals, creating plans, involving others, overcoming obstacles, and recognizing progress. Pursuing meaningful accomplishments represents a significant action in defining and affirming the value of one's own life.
Integrity
We operate in an atmosphere of openness and are committed to ethical conduct and practices, to public accountability, to cultivating personal values and moral reasoning, and to maintaining the highest professional standards in all academic and administrative endeavors.
Social Responsibility
We create safe, caring, respectful, and productive learning environments. We also help work with others to develop the social skills, emotional competencies, and qualities of character they need to succeed and become contributing members of their communities.
Goal Statements
- Goal I: Enhance the student learning experience.
- Goal II: Recruit, retain, and develop quality staff.
- Goal III: Strengthen the division's regional engagement and outreach activities.
- Goal IV: Secure adequate resources to achieve divisional goals through responsible use of existing state and student fee sources and the identification and procurement
of new and on-going alternative sources. - Goal V: Utilize and incorporate emerging technologies in order to provide quality programs and services.
- Goal VI: Provide safe, accessible, adaptable, well-maintained, well-equipped, healthy and sufficient facilities intentionally designed to be inviting, to encourage interaction,
and to reflect the values of the university.
Learning Outcomes
- Informed Reasoning
- Effective Communication
- Personal Responsibility
- Inclusion and Multicultural Competence
- Well Being
- Civic and Community Engagement
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