Student Development Office

Welcome! The Student Development Office coordinates services, programs and experiences designed to encourage discovery, reflection and self-awareness across a broad spectrum of metacurricular arena. The department’s primary ambition is to offer students access to an array of opportunities which expose them to information, ideas, skills and worldviews that support and challenge their evolving identities.
Toward this end, the department organizes its energies around the following focus areas:

• artistic and intellectual development opportunities
• gender programs and resources
• GLBT programs and resources
• leadership development and experiential education programs
• multicultural and diversity programs and initiatives
• personal skill development
• residential governance structures
• residential life staffing and support mechanisms
• spirituality development and meaning-making programs

Ultimately, our ambition is that creative and thoughtful programs and services will yield rewarding and gratifying experiences for students and will translate into a lifelong commitment to self-directed learning and community involvement.