Division of Student Development
Welcome to Student Development
As a residential college, Albion is concerned with the growth and development of the whole person in a number of interrelated realms: intellectual, personal, social, spiritual, emotional, physical, vocational. A primary goal of the Student Development Division is to encourage students to develop a greater sense of responsibility: responsibility for their own education, responsibility for their own decision-making, responsibility for formulating defensible positions on important issues—indeed responsibility for determining their own identity and life’s direction.
Under the direction of the Vice President for Student Development and Dean of Students, the six departments and two programs within the Student Development Division of the College provide programs and services that support the academic mission of the College and that encourage and enhance a full educational experience for each individual student. To learn more about the departments and programs within the Student Development Division, please visit the websites for these offices and programs.
Mission Statement
The Albion College Division of Student Development engages students in an inclusive, safe, healthy and enriching residential learning community.
Vision Statement
Every student is prepared to positively impact their communities.
Learning Goals
- Inclusion: Cultivating students’ awareness and understanding of their own distinct identities, increasing their connection to others and understanding how all identities belong together in community.
- Safety: Partnering to create a safe living, learning and working community for students and others.
- Health and Wellness: Providing programming and educational opportunities that will integrate the seven dimensions of wellness into a student’s daily life that will help them persist and thrive.
- Enrichment: Providing opportunities for active involvement, leadership and learning through programs, resources and services to positively shape the quality of the on-campus experience.
Learning Outcomes
- Inclusion: Students will be able to…
- Identify aspects of their own identity and culture
- Listen while withholding judgment about the new or unfamiliar
- Approach other people with curiosity and care while demonstrating empathy
- Engage in civil discourse while considering perspectives that are different from their own
- Safety: Students will be able to…
- Identify their own basic safety needs
- Understand that they have responsibility for the safety of themselves and others
- Practice safety strategies and demonstrate help-seeking behaviors
- Navigate systems and structures to meet their needs in order to help build a safe community
- Health and Wellness: Students will be able to…
- Identify behaviors that promote their own health and wellness
- Understand how to balance their health and make lifestyle choices and decisions to thrive
- Navigate the public health system in order to access appropriate resources
- Enrichment: Students will be able to…
- Learn something new
- Develop leadership skills and competencies
- Learn how to hold peers accountable to common organizational goals
- Apply knowledge gained in curricular settings to co-curricular settings