Professionals in the Division of Student Life (DSL) collaborate to enable learning opportunities and experiences that reach far beyond the classroom. We provide students with activities that foster knowledge and success, and create a complete University experience where students achieve an understanding of themselves and the world around them.
To ensure that every University of Iowa student leaves with a skillset of practices that carries into their future endeavors, we have outlined our top priorities for 2011 as Undergraduate Leadership Development, Healthy and Safety, and Multiculturalism, Diversity, & Inclusion.
Students succeed at Iowa when they become effective leaders. The Division of Student Life provides an array of leadership experiences for students. Our strategic priority is to expand the number of undergraduates who have access to a meaningful student leadership experience. Our ambitious goal is “all Hawkeyes as leaders”.
We encourage our students to be valued members of the Hawkeye family and Iowa City area community by providing them with leadership programs and education, volunteer opportunities, interships, and job connections, that enable them to excel during their time at the University.
Students are at the center of everything we do in the Division. To ensure that every Hawkeye maintains a healthy and productive lifestyle, we provide safety education, wellness programs, and a number of on-campus health agencies for students to access when neccessary.
From the University Counseling Service and our various Health Clinics, to Alcohol Harm Reducation and Safety Initiatives, we provide our students with the most efficient safety and health services.
Multicultural competence is a reflective process. Determining how the Division can continue to contribute to the multicultural competence of our students is enhanced by an inward focus on our own multicultural competence. In order to make a significant outward contribution, we need to have an effective framework for ongoing staff development in this area.
As we increase the multicultural competence of Division faculty and staff, we come together to educate our students on diversity and promote inclusion as a focal point at The University of Iowa.
Posted on February 16, 2012
Do you know a student who really exemplifies the values in The IOWA Challenge? Nominate them for our Meet the Challenge awards! The Meet the Challenge Awards will be given during the annual Hawkeye Awards. Awards will be given in …
Posted on January 19, 2012
Here is a nice example of how we can communicate inclusiveness to our prospective constituents: In an effort to demonstrate our agency’s valuing of the diversity of cultures represented by students here at the University of Iowa, we created this …
Posted on November 28, 2011
The Division of Student Life is bringing Kathy Obear to campus in January to continue to support our focus on multicultural organizational development. Kathy has done much important work in the area of multiculturalism, inclusion, and diversity. In particular, she …
