the role of student affairs and services in higher education

Typical Activities –
• Providing counseling to students that determines the financial aid available to
them including grants, loans, scholarships, work, and fee remissions.
• Providing assistance to students and families in completing various financial
aid applications and forms.
• Dispersing financial aid funds.
• Approving emergency loans to students with unusual/sudden needs.
• Assisting in collection of outstanding loans from students.
• Engaging in job development for student part-time and summer jobs, in
cooperation with Careers Service.
• Providing job listings for part-time and summer student employment, in
cooperation with Careers Service.
• Developing information and conducting workshops on financial management.
Health Services
Purpose/functions –
• To promote and enhance the good health and well-being of students that
support student academic success and enhance the quality of campus life.
• To offer effective on-campus primary health care and information services at
little or no cost to registered students.
• To promote student health education, awareness, and wellness programs.
Typical Activities –
• Providing outpatient, primary care with diagnosis, treatment, and consultation
on most general health care needs.
• Providing specialty clinics for specialized care in dermatology, orthopedics,
minor surgery, gynecology, internal medicine, ophthalmology, urology,
neurology, and other unique treatment modes such as acupuncture.
• Conducting women’s and men’s health clinics that provide care and treatment
for gender specific problems.
• Conducting outreach programs and learning opportunities that emphasize
self-help in achieving and maintaining health.
• Providing a peer health counselor program that provides peer care and
educational counseling for health concerns.
• Providing supplemental, affordable health insurance coverage for health care
needs that cannot be obtained in the student health clinic such as
hospitalization, surgery, and some specialized treatments.
• Providing information on health issues specifically involving the college age
student, e.g., sexually transmitted diseases, stress, diet, depression.
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