Mission

The mission of the Office of Residence Life is to foster a residential experience that engages indiviudals as students, community members and learners through academic support, civic engagement 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 the Division 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

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