Student Affairs Role and Mission
Mission Statement:
Student Affairs adopts best co-curricular practices to improve all students’ chances of achieving success in their academic, personal and career pursuits. Student Affairs helps students succeed, one student at a time
Institutional Priorities:
- Through enrollment planning, ensure strategic university recruitment retention and outcomes.
- Foster student learning in all co-curricular and first-year experiences.
- Create campus conditions that build strong satisfaction and affiliation with OU.
- Ensure all programs and services including auxiliaries contribute to student retention.
- Steward funds to achieve strategic goals and superior financial results.
Oakland University Role and Mission
As a state-supported institution of higher education, Oakland University has a three-fold mission. It offers instructional programs of high quality that lead to degrees at the baccalaureate, master's and doctoral levels as well as programs in continuing education; it advances knowledge and promotes the arts through research, scholarship and creative activity; and it renders significant public service. In all its activities, the university strives to exemplify educational leadership.