Vision, Mission, Values, and Priorities
VISION
Student Affairs commits itself to transforming students’ lives through creating a safe, inclusive, and vibrant learning community.
MISSION
Student Affairs fosters student success by cultivating and empowering connection, engagement, well-being, and active learning to prepare campus leaders and global citizens.
CORE VALUES
Community
Create opportunities that enhance connection, community, and belonging.
Diversity and Equity
Enrich and celebrate our diversity and commitment to equity.
Excellence
Relentlessly pursue excellence with creativity, agility, courage, and innovative thinking.
Inclusion
Promote equal access and an inclusive campus community that encourages respectful exchange of ideas and perspectives.
Partnership
Build collaborative partnerships with key stakeholders to strengthen the Seawolf experience.
Respect
Foster respect, compassion, and pride across our campus community.
Responsibility
Develop students as civic and service-minded leaders who are environmentally, intellectually, globally, personally, and socially responsible.
Wellness
Embrace safety, health, and wellness as a critical foundation of holistic student learning and success.
DIVISIONAL PRIORITIES
These are our divisional priorities for 2024 through 2030.
Safety, Health, & Wellness
We are committed to providing holistic and high-quality programs, services, and facilities that promote and support student safety, health, and wellness. We work to cultivate a safe, caring, and equitable environment that encourages personal responsibility and healthy choices.
The Seawolf Experience
We support graduate and undergraduate students’ sense of belonging, success, and overall experience at Stony Brook via social, cultural, recreational, academic, and leadership experiences. We strive to model our core values through campus involvement, employment, civic engagement, and services and programs that support students from admission to graduation.
Experiential Learning & Career Readiness
We value experiential education as a proven high impact practice that both aligns with the equity/excellence imperative of US higher education and leads to career readiness. We are a leader in creating high quality, developmentally focused experiences for all graduate and undergraduate students and in building a strong partnership with Academic Affairs to embed experiential learning and career readiness into the core learning experience.
Outreach, Innovation, & Continuous Improvement
We embrace a vision of success for students that is multidimensional and nuanced. Through data-informed innovations, we enhance engagement with students, support their continuous development, and improve meaningful student outcomes.
Organizational Health & Excellence
We recognize that through a skilled and passionate workforce as well as a culture of organizational health and excellence, we are able to provide the highest quality programs and services to our students and peers. We commit to enhancing our practices in resource management and investment to advance our team, foster innovation, and achieve our goals.