Student Affairs houses the programs and offices that are collectively responsible for providing services and programs to support the social, interpersonal, and emotional growth of BSMRAU students. While academic units play a critical role in a student’s cognitive development, Student Affairs assumes the major responsibility for helping to create a positive campus environment that enhances and supports that development. The quality of student life is significantly affected by the availability, variety, and integrity of services and extra academic support programs on campus. It is our task to build alliances between the classroom and campus life, and to provide and opportunity for students to experience the excitement and responsibility that comes from being an active member of a community of higher learning.
The mission of Student Affairs is consistent with the University’s general mission of teaching, service, and research. Student Affairs provides excellent student services, student development programs, and activities for the University’s diverse undergraduate and graduate populations, with particular emphasis given to unique support services for minority and disadvantaged students. The service mostly aims at assisting students in sorting out their difficulties and dilemmas in an environment where they can talk freely and in confidence about any matter which is troubling them. Students seek counseling for a variety of reasons, such as difficulties in adjusting to campus life, problems in relationship, being shy, feeling lonely, anxious, depressed, confused, unmotivated, inferiority, having difficulties with coping academic pressures and competition, worries about the future, low self-confidence, problems related to their facilities etc. Student Affairs encourages the intellectual, vocational, personal, social, and cultural development of students. Student Affairs also assists students in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and insights that facilitate life-long learning and a sense of personal and interpersonal competence and human understanding.
