Housing - Mission Statement and Goals

Maintain and provide a safe, secure educational community through planned development, communication and understanding of an individual’s needs, while living in a community environment.
Promote educational growth through activities and programs that link students to internal and external support agencies.
Build a student community that unites individuals and group members together in an effort to further their intellectual, social, emotional, physical and spiritual growth, thereby laying a foundation for the essentials of developing an educational community.
Meet the ever-changing needs of students by providing a trained staff that is able to recognize students’ diverse cultural, physical and spiritual needs.

To develop a living/learning environment where students, residence life staff, and other members of the university community cooperate to create programs and opportunities which maximize learning and the development of the whole student.
To create and maintain an environment which ensures safe, clean, healthy, attractive, and comfortable living conditions at a reasonable price.
To provide effective residence life leadership that ensures efficient student-oriented administration of the housing program.
To offer activities which will increase awareness, understanding, and appreciation for individuals and experiences of different lifestyles and backgrounds.
To create opportunities and foster the expectations of the community members to assume responsibility for their actions and make self-directed choices.