Mission Statement
University Housing is dedicated to fostering a quality living and learning environment.
Vision Statement
University Housing seeks to be a progressive organization that creates an engaging living and learning environment and will be recognized for providing quality customer services.
Statement of Values
In addition to the shared values of SIUE, University Housing values the following:
- Engaging students in active learning
- Helping students develop coherent values, ethical standards, and social awareness
- Setting high expectations for students and staff
- Using systematic inquiry to improve student and departmental performance
- Providing leadership and efficient use of resources to help achieve the institution’s mission and goals
- Establishing educational partnerships
- Building supportive and inclusive living and learning communities
Statement on Diversity
University Housing is committed to engaging students in educational experiences in an open, civil, and respectful climate that will prepare them for global citizenship and lifelong learning.
Educational Priority
University Housing fosters an environment that promotes opportunities for students to become civically, socially, and academically responsible individuals who are engaged members of their current and future communities.
Learning Goals
Practical Competence: Students will acquire knowledge and skills that will enable them to be self-sufficient and capable of solving everyday problems.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to demonstrate positive self-management skills.
- Beginning: Students will be able to identify their skills and needs (Ex. time management, budgeting, study skills, self-advocacy, cleaning, cooking).
- Intermediate: Students will be able to employ resources to address needs.
- Advanced: Students will be able to apply their skills to new situations or environments.
Civility: Students will interact compassionately with the world around them while gaining an understanding of and appreciation for cultural and human differences.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to describe the impact of their choices on themselves and others.
- Beginning:Students will be able to identify their choices that impact others.
- Intermediate:Students will modify their behaviors based on their understanding of how their choices impact others.
- Advanced:Students will be able to recognize the connection between their impact on others and impact on themselves.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to develop healthy relationships.
- Beginning:Students will be able to identify characteristics of healthy relationships.
- Intermediate:Students will be able to engage in civil behaviors.
- Advanced:Students will be able to advocate for the needs of each person involved in a relationship.
Social Responsibility: Students will articulate and demonstrate the duty to act for the benefit of society and the environment.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to employ strategies that demonstrate an understanding of the triple bottom line of sustainability(Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice).
- Beginning: Students will be able to define the triple bottom line of sustainability.
- Intermediate: Students will be able to explore sustainable practices.
- Advanced: Students will be able to employ strategies that align with the triple bottom line of sustainability.
Global Awareness: Students will articulate and celebrate the similarities and differences of individuals, groups, and societies.
- Students will be able to describe the intersections of their identities.
- Beginning: Students will be able to identify socially-constructed identities.
- Intermediate: Students will be able to explain their own socially-constructed identities.
- Advanced: Students will be able to recognize the personal impact of their various identity groups.
- As a result of participating in University Housing, students will be able to appreciate how identities influence interactions within society.
- Beginning: Students will be able to define systems of oppression and privilege.
- Intermediate: Students will be able to describe how their identities impact their interactions with others.
- Advanced: Students will be able to advocate for others.
