Student Development
Student Development facilitates student transition into the campus learning community, promotes student involvement in out-of-class learning experiences, assists student organizations, provides leadership training, encourages campus and community service, develops multicultural programs to increase awareness of diversity, emphasizes social and civic engagement and responsibility and coordinates a wide range of programs and services designed to foster student learning.
Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) offer opportunities for students to participate in approximately 450 student organizations.
Fraternal Education promotes the growth and development of students who are affiliated with the campus social fraternity and sorority community by emphasizing student learning, leadership, education, and development, involvement in campus and community activities, and social and civic responsibility.
Multicultural Programs and Services sponsor workshops, seminars, and special event programs designed to promote and enhance student-learning experiences within the context of the culturally pluralistic campus community. Programs include new student orientation sessions designed to meet the needs of multi-ethnic students, multi-ethnic student peer training and mentoring programs, multicultural awareness programs, multi-ethnic student involvement programs, special interest group workshops and seminars, and advisement assistance to multi-ethnic RSOs.
Saluki Volunteer Corps (SVC) promotes social and civic responsibility by encouraging students to volunteer to participate in a minimum of 30 community service hours each academic year of their enrollment in response to the State of Illinois mandate focusing on the student as a citizen-scholar, and by serving as the University’s Clearinghouse for student volunteer requests.
Services for Non-Traditional students assists non-traditional students with their transition into and through the campus learning environment by serving as a campus and community resource referral agency for all enrolled students who may define themselves as non-traditional, serving as a clearinghouse for nontraditional student concerns, and promoting campus awareness of and response to non-traditional students, their spouses and family members.
For additional information, contact Student Development at 618-453-5714.
Dr. Katie Sermersheim
Director, Student Development
Phone: (618) 453-7524
Email: sermersh@siu.edu
Website: http://www.stddev.siu.edu/index.php