Welcome to the Geneseo Department of Student Life team. The following slides are an introduction to the department. As you review them, please be thinking about how you can contribute to meeting our mission and goals and how you might grow from your work experience.

SUNY Geneseo, nationally recognized as a center of excellence in undergraduate education, is a public liberal arts college with selected professional and master's level programs. It combines a rigorous curriculum, transformational learning experiences, and a rich co-curricular life to create a learning-centered environment. The entire college community works together to develop socially responsible citizens with skills and values important to the pursuit of an enriched life and success in the world.

The Division of Student and Campus Life has as its primary function the advancement of the mission of the College through the provision of a broad range of educational, social, and recreational programs, facilities, and fundamental services that foster the optimum living and learning environment on campus, facilitate the overall development of each student, and enhance the sense of community at the College.

Student and Campus Life

Geneseo achieves its educational mission by combining a rigorous curriculum with a rich co-curricular life. The student life experience at Geneseo is intentionally educational, and fosters widespread, substantive student engagement in carefully designed, developmentally based programs and services. Student Life is a department within the Division of Student and Campus Life at Geneseo.

It is the intention of the Department of Student Life to provide and to identify opportunities for students that result in increased learning, greater self-awareness and a clearer sense of purpose.

It is the mission of the Geneseo Department of Student Life to catalogue, promote, assess and strengthen student learning opportunities within Student and Campus Life that contribute to a rich, meaningful, and fulfilling college experience for Geneseo students.

Our passion is the improvement of the human condition through the expansion of a caring community. (Campus Life: In Search of Community p. 47)

Overarching Goals:1. To provide opportunities for students to learn, interact,

lead, reflect, program, question and have fun. (How College Affects Students p. 647)

2. To provide a safe and inviting place where the college community can gather to engage and flourish.

Responsibilities:

AAC&U High Impact Practices -Student & Campus Cocurricular High Impact PracticesAAC&U Value Rubrics-Student & Campus Life Assessment InitiativeAdvisement of the Geneseo Campus Activities BoardAll-College Hour Speaker Series College Registered Student Organizations Geneseo Late KnightKnight SpotMacVittie College Union Corner PocketKinetic GalleryConcierge Desk

Positively GeneseoStudent Life Internship ProgramUpstate EscapesVictor E. Knight Mascot ProgramWeeks of Welcome

CHECK IN(True or False)

T F 1. Geneseo achieves its educational mission by combining a rigorous curriculum with a rich co-curricular life.

T F 2. It is the intention of the Department of Student Life to provide every student with a new car.

T F 3. As a student worker in the Department of Student Life you can contribute to a rich, meaningful, and fulfilling college experience for Geneseo students.

T F 4. You can aid in the improvement of the human condition through the expansion of a caring community.

1)True2)False3)True4)True

Employment in the Department of Student Life:1. Requires you to put forth effort. 2. Helps you build substantive

relationships. 3. Allows you to engage across

differences.4. Provides you with feedback. 5. Helps you apply and test what you

are learning in new situations.6. Provides you with opportunities to

reflect on the person you are becoming.

As member of the Student Life team, please be thinking about the following:

1. How is this job fitting in with your academics?

2. What are you learning here that is helping you in your courses?

3. What are you learning in class that you can apply to you work?

Again, welcome to the Student Life team. Do your best (Challenge).Ask for help when you need it (Support).Smile and have fun (Service to others).