The document provides an introduction to the Geneseo Department of Student Life. It summarizes that Geneseo achieves its educational mission through a rigorous curriculum combined with rich co-curricular experiences. The Department of Student Life aims to provide learning opportunities to contribute to a meaningful college experience and foster student development. As a new member of the Student Life team, the reader is encouraged to reflect on how the job fits their academics and what they can learn and apply from both their coursework and work experiences.

1. Welcome to the Geneseo Department of Student
Life team. The following slides are an introduction
to the department. As you review them, please be
thinking about how you can contribute to meeting
our mission and goals and how you might grow
from your work experience.

2. SUNY Geneseo, nationally recognized as a
center of excellence in undergraduate
education, is a public liberal arts college
with selected professional and master's
level programs. It combines a rigorous
curriculum, transformational learning
experiences, and a rich co-curricular life
to create a learning-centered
environment. The entire college
community works together to develop
socially responsible citizens with skills and
values important to the pursuit of an
enriched life and success in the world.

3. The Division of Student and Campus Life has as its
primary function the advancement of the mission
of the College through the provision of a broad
range of educational, social, and recreational
programs, facilities, and fundamental services that
foster the optimum living and learning
environment on campus, facilitate the overall
development of each student, and enhance the
sense of community at the College.
Student and Campus Life

4. Geneseo achieves its educational
mission by combining a rigorous
curriculum with a rich co-curricular
life. The student life experience at
Geneseo is intentionally educational,
and fosters widespread, substantive
student engagement in carefully
designed, developmentally based
programs and services. Student Life
is a department within the Division
of Student and Campus Life at
Geneseo.

5. It is the intention of the Department of Student
Life to provide and to identify opportunities for
students that result in increased learning,
greater self-awareness and a clearer sense of
purpose.

6. It is the mission of the Geneseo Department of
Student Life to catalogue, promote, assess and
strengthen student learning opportunities within
Student and Campus Life that contribute to a rich,
meaningful, and fulfilling college experience for
Geneseo students.

7. Our passion is the improvement of
the human condition through the
expansion of a caring community.
(Campus Life: In Search of Community p. 47)

8. Overarching Goals:
1. To provide opportunities for students to learn, interact,
lead, reflect, program, question and have fun.
(How College Affects Students p. 647)
2. To provide a safe and inviting place where the college
community can gather to engage and flourish.

9. Responsibilities:
AAC&U High Impact Practices -Student
& Campus Cocurricular High Impact
Practices
AAC&U Value Rubrics-Student &
Campus Life Assessment Initiative
Advisement of the Geneseo Campus
Activities Board
All-College Hour Speaker Series
College Registered Student
Organizations
Geneseo Late Knight
Knight Spot
MacVittie College Union
Corner Pocket
Kinetic Gallery
Concierge Desk
Positively Geneseo
Student Life Internship Program
Upstate Escapes
Victor E. Knight Mascot Program
Weeks of Welcome

10. CHECK IN
(True or False)
T F 1. Geneseo achieves its educational mission by combining a rigorous
curriculum with a rich co-curricular life.
T F 2. It is the intention of the Department of Student Life to provide every
student with a new car.
T F 3. As a student worker in the Department of Student Life you can contribute
to a rich, meaningful, and fulfilling college experience for Geneseo
students.
T F 4. You can aid in the improvement of the human condition through the
expansion of a caring community.
1)True
2)False
3)True
4)True

11. Lauren Kuski
Coordinator of Late Night Program & Activities
Tiffany Brodner
Senior Coordinator of Student Activities
Student Life Interns
Student Union Managers,
MacVittie College Union
Work Study Employees,
Student Life
Student Financial Assistant,
MacVittie College Union
Charles Matthews, “Chip”
Director of Student Life, MacVittie College Union
Student Event Staff,
Geneseo Late Knight
Graduate Assistant,
Geneseo Late Knight
Krissie Barsema
Coordinator of Student Organizations
Cheryl Deusenbery
Agency Program Aide,
Student Life

12. Employment in the Department of
Student Life:
1. Requires you to put forth effort.
2. Helps you build substantive
relationships.
3. Allows you to engage across
differences.
4. Provides you with feedback.
5. Helps you apply and test what you
are learning in new situations.
6. Provides you with opportunities to
reflect on the person you are
becoming.

13. As member of the Student Life team,
please be thinking about the
following:
1. How is this job fitting in with your
academics?
2. What are you learning here that is
helping you in your courses?
3. What are you learning in class that you
can apply to you work?

14. Again, welcome to the Student Life team.
Do your best (Challenge).
Ask for help when you need it (Support).
Smile and have fun (Service to others).