About Residence Life
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About Residence Life
The mission of the Office of Residence Life is to foster a residential experience that engages individuals as students, community members and learners through academic support, civic responsibility and personal development.
Motto
The Office of Residence Life strives to:
Build a better student
Build a better person
Build a better community
Build a better experience
As part of Student Affairs at Western Michigan University, we also adhere to the following:
Vision
To be a premier learning-oriented student affairs division.
Mission
To engage students in learning and personal development.
Ernest Boyer's 10 key actions
We will:
- Create conditions that enhance student learning and personal development.
- Create purposeful, open, just, disciplined, caring and celebrative environments.
- Make people matter.
- Advance diversity within community.
- Teach effective citizenship.
- Forge collaborative partnerships with students, faculty, staff and others to enhance student learning.
- Allocate resources to encourage student learning and personal development.
- Integrate expertise on students, their environments and teaching and learning processes into practice.
- Base policies and programs on best practices from the research on student learning and development and on institution-specific assessment data.
- Involve students in all facets of the University to enhance student learning and personal development.