Vision  

We envision a campus where every student feels welcome, is engaged, and becomes an agent for social change.

Mission 

Student Experiences & Engagement co-creates dynamic opportunities for students to explore meaningful involvement, strengthen their leadership skills and transform themselves and their community(ies).

Values

Student Experiences & Engagement uses the values of the Division of Student Affairs to guide our work. Our divisional values include knowledge, humanity, integrity, responsibility, and community. 

Vision & Mission

Protocols

We believe in the importance of lifelong learning and holding space for complexity, ambiguity, and emotional intelligence to imagine better futures for all our communities. To do this work, we believe that: 

 

  • commit to taking ownership for our learning and growth 

  • build in time for self-reflection and learning 

  • hold space for complexity 

  • make mistakes, share lessons and seek feedback 

  • develop personal agency and accountability for learning and growth (in beliefs, thinking, feelings, and behaviors) 

  • identify and adjust to one’s social location/positionality; reflect, plan and act to advance equity, inclusion & belonging 

  • locate and be responsive to power, privilege, and oppression dynamics 

  • attend to impact, repair and healing when needed 

  • lead with empathy and humility 

  • identify and learn about care and healing modalities, resources and referral processes 

  • model and develop holistic practices 

  • create opportunities and spaces for processing, meaning-making and collective healing that support holistic wellbeing 

  • center relational approaches to move work forward 

  • practice authenticity and vulnerability 

  • integrate creativity, experimentation and innovation 

  • develop sustainable, reciprocal partnerships and collaboration that work towards shared goals 


2024 Goals

By the year 2024 Student Experiences & Engagement will contribute to the campus strategic plan 4.0 by providing meaningful experiential learning and campus involvement opportunities for all OSU students to succeed and thrive. Major highlights from 2024 will include:

Students experience their time interacting with SEE as transformative. As a result of their participation, they have made meaning about their experiences and understand how their involvement directly supports their growth and employability. 

  • Students experience a sense of belonging and are empowered through their connections with SEE students and staff.  

  • Opportunities are well known and accessible, students know how and where to get involved. 

  • Students experience staff as being intentional, caring and engaged mentors and supervisors.  

We diligently work at developing relationships that allow for emergent and reciprocal partnerships.  

  • Every SEE environment is full of energy, enthusiasm and student activity. From the Student Experience Center to the Cultural Resource Centers, each place is a hub for community building, learning and restoration.  

  • The core values of empathy, trust, communication and healing are centered in how we engage with each other and our respective communities. Holistic wellness is embedded in our programs and processes.  

SEE students gain tools to develop their own sense of meaning and purpose. They understand their privileges, cultural identities, impact of their actions and agency for social change. 

  • SEE is well known for cultivating social change makers, making positive impacts on campus and beyond. 

  • Staff deepen their knowledge, skills and awareness to challenge themselves and each other to be the best versions of themselves in all aspects of their work.  

SEE areas provide outside-the-classroom laboratories for social innovation and creative problem-solving. There is synergy between the academic, cultural and social experience. 

  • SEE students and staff are leaders of experiential learning and student engagement at OSU.  We  are well regarded for our ideas and innovations in high impact practices. 

  • SEE staff and students leverage skills and talents to iterate our offerings. We seek excellence by regularly incorporating feedback and pausing for reflection and learning.