PURPOSE:  The division of Student Affairs coordinates the non-teaching services which the college provides for students.  These services complement the academic offerings and aid the students towards optimal development as a “whole person.”

THE GOALS OF STUDENT AFFAIRS ARE:

1. To provide a multiple of non-teaching services that aid the student in developing socially, academically, and professionally as he/she participates in the programs the college provides.
   
   
2. To develop good citizens by providing a democratic setting and an atmosphere of learning in which student may develop individually and collectively through co-curricular activities.
   
   
3. To assist students in setting attainable goals and making beginning steps toward these goals in the transfer program and becoming “job ready” through the terminal program.
   
   
4. To provide development programs, to screen students and counsel them in areas of greatest benefit to each student predicted on his/her needs and desire of assistance.
   
   
5. To implement a regularly scheduled series of lyceum and cultural events that involves resident, commuting and “non-traditional students.
   
   
6. To implement programs to increase the retention rate of incoming freshmen.
   
   
7. To improve coordination of campus activities and events involving student.