Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment
Management
SAEM Mission, Vision, Philosophy and Critical Areas/Goals
Lincoln University Mission,Vision, Philosophy and Goals
SAEM Mission
The Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
Division is the organizational unit within Lincoln University
that is charged with responsibility for developing and implementing
services, activities, and opportunities which complement students’
academic experiences, as well as enhance their adjustment to and
participation in University life. Simultaneously, the Division
advances the general well being of Lincoln University students.
Hence, its purview is broad and covers a number of aspects in
and outside the classroom. Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
functions and activities involve recruiting and admitting students
and assisting them with financing their education; fostering personal
and social development; orienting students new to the University;
offering opportunities for leadership development; providing residential
facilities management and security, student services, activities,
athletics and programs; and providing academic support services.
Through its services and programs, Student Affairs and Enrollment
Management promotes student development; enhances students’
intellectual development; assists students in overcoming personal,
physical, or educational problems; and seeks to ameliorate environmental
conditions that may adversely influence students’ well being.
The following statements reflect the mission, purpose, and operational
tenets of the Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Division.
• The Division provides a comprehensive set of interrelated
services, activities and referrals that focus on holistic student
development
• The Division utilizes the enrollment management concept
to enhance student enrollment-related processes and services.
• The Division is structured to provide quality and variety
of experiences – academic, intellectual, cultural and social
– which promote educational opportunities.
• The Division interprets and meets students’ needs
through its programs, policies, and practices.
• The Division promotes a sense of social responsibility,
as well as personal and professional worth, so that graduates
are capable of providing leadership in local, regional, national,
and international spheres.
• The Division provides guidance needed to enhance students’
sensitivity to the moral, ethical, spiritual, and aesthetic values
upon which our society rests.
• The Division encourages excellence among its staff.
SAEM Vision
The Student Affairs and Enrollment Management
vision statement describes the nature and concept of its future
enterprise. It establishes what the Division plans to do and become.
The vision statement also describes the necessary provisions,
the future and environment, and the experiences that should be
available to the University's students, as well as the nature
of the Division's work and its performance expectations. The division
of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management's vision statement
is as follows:
The Student Affairs and Enrollment Management (SAEM) Division
at Lincoln University strives to provide the most efficient and
effective student programs, services, and activities, which are
responsive to the needs, interests, and concerns of the Lincoln
University community and meet the vision, goals, and purpose of
the University. Lincoln University students study, work, recreate,
participate and live in a stimulating, nurturing and safe environment,
where they are valued as individuals, and in which they are encouraged
and assisted to develop affective competencies that complement
their academic ones and transcend their tenure at Lincoln.
The Student Affairs and Enrollment Management staff members at
Lincoln are vibrant and progressive career professionals who are
actively engaged in their work and careers. As student affairs
practitioners, the SAEM staff are abreast of developments in their
respective fields and are singularly and collectively committed
to integrated planning and development within and across divisional
lines; and they strive for excellence in every aspect of their
personal and professional endeavors. The staff embraces the vision,
mission, spirit, and basic tenets of the Division and University.
SAEM Philosophy
A commonly shared philosophical orientation frames
the SAEM Division’s collective efforts and gives cohesion
to the units that comprise it. Student Affairs and Enrollment
Management adheres to the concept of “total student development,”
a holistic approach to student development. The services, programs
and experiences provided to students by
Student Affairs and Enrollment Management are designed to complement
the perspectives, needs, interests, and concerns that influence
students’ academic performance as well as their social and
personal adjustment to the University setting. Student Affairs
and Enrollment Management holds that students’ academic
needs, interests, and concerns must be viewed in the context of
other influencing factors. Therefore, attention to their development
as college students requires comprehensive programming and services,
the aim of which is to provide students with skills, knowledge,
orientations, experiences, and assistance that facilitate their
“active engagement” on campus and persistence through
graduation.
The approach to addressing and operationalizing the "Active
Engagement" elements include integrated, active, comprehensive
and holistic methods.
• "Integrated" means that the Division's efforts
will be carried out across departments and involve cooperation
with units and departments outside the Student Affairs and Enrollment
Management Division.
• "Active" means that the approach emphasizes
outreach, prevention, structure and action.
• “Comprehensive" means that the approach addresses
myriad factors related to students' success and progress at the
University.
• "Holistic" means that the approach recognizes
that students' performance in, success at, and adjustment to university
life are affected by numerous factors and forces that interplay
in their lives.
In addition, the design ensures that students will concurrently
be actively engaged in their
university experiences while the student affairs staff will be
actively engaged in its work.
Excellence, team spirit, and support will undergird the staff's
work.
Excellence
Excellence will be displayed in attention to detail in planning
and execution of our programs and services. The ultimate goal
is to achieve flawless execution and delivery of programs and
services. The division’s staff will seek to “raise
the bar” with each and every program, activity or informational
piece they implement.
Team Spirit and Support
Integrated planning and a shared vision and philosophical tenets
will guide and undergird the staff's work. The staff will actively
engage in the resolution of critical issues, problems and concerns
that affect students, the Division, and/or particular functional
areas. Moreover, individual staff members will support joint efforts
once consensus is reached or directions are set.
Customer (Student)-Friendly Delivery
Programs and services will be delivered in ways rooted in the
recognition that students are the "primary customers"
of the University, in general, and of the Student Affairs and
Enrollment Management Division in particular. Therefore, the Division's
operations,
procedures, physical and staffing arrangements will be planned,
delivered, and arranged with the needs, interests, and concerns
of students as its primary customers. Also, the staff will be
mindful of the needs, interests, and concerns of parents, coworkers,
and colleagues as sets of secondary customers.
SAEM Critical Areas/Goals
SAEM GOAL 1.1:
The Division of SAEM will foster a student-centered approach to
management and office operations.
OBJECTIVE 1.1.1: To measure the work of all
staff on how well their activities
support creating an environment that is conducive to student learning.
OBJECTIVE 1.1.2: To identify educational and
co-curricular needs of the student
body and provide programs to meet those needs.
OBJECTIVE 1.1.3: To increase opportunities to
communicate, recognize, and honor students for their contributions
to student life on campus.
SAEM GOAL 3.1:
The Division of SAEM staff will provide an array of student development
programs to address students’ physical, spiritual, emotional,
and social development, and will promote leadership development
and service opportunities.
OBJECTIVE 3.1.1: To continuously emphasize SAEM’s
supportive role for the
academic mission of the University.
OBJECTIVE 3.1.2: To initiate out-of-class activities
that foster the development of students’ self-knowledge,
critical thinking, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
OBJECTIVE 3.1.3: To promote experiences and
develop programs which prepare
students for successful integration into a dynamic, diverse, and
ever-changing global society.
OBJECTIVE 3.1.4: To design and implement programs
which foster students’
appreciation for the value of public service and puts them in
touch with the needs of the community.
OBJECTIVE 3.1.5: To design and implement student
programs which foster the
development of skills that are used during the life course (e.g.,
career, life, family,
and financial planning) and equip students to lead successful
and productive lives.
OBJECTIVE 3.1.6: To plan and implement experiences
through which students
develop the skills to deal effectively with ethical, moral, and
societal issues of the
day.
OBJECTIVE 3.1.7: To plan and implement an enrollment
management program of student recruitment, orientation and student
retention that enhances the University’s marketing effectiveness
efforts.
SAEM GOAL 4.1:
The Division of SAEM will offer programs that prepare students
to work and live in other cultures and to communicate in other
languages.
OBJECTIVE 4.1.1: To enhance the international
diversity of the campus in order to stimulate increased cross-cultural
interaction for Lincoln students, faculty, and staff and prepare
them for participation in the emerging global society.
OBJECTIVE 4.1.2: To support programming that
illuminates and enhances
appreciation of other cultures.
OBJECTIVE 4.1.3: To increase, in conjunction
with Academic Affairs, emphasis on the study of languages to prepare
students to participate in meaningful international study through
which they can gain knowledge of global issues.
SAEM GOAL 5.1:
The Division of SAEM will assist Academic Affairs in developing
innovative
educational programs and services in the Philadelphia area through
greater utilization of the Urban Center.
OBJECTIVE 5.1.1: To promote “Workforce
Development” in the Philadelphia area by assisting in defining
the continuing education focus of the Urban Center.
OBJECTIVE 5.1.2: To promote and recruit for
new programs by linking the Urban Center with high schools, colleges
and universities and businesses.
SAEM GOAL 7.1:
The Division of SAEM will work to retain an excellent staff by
providing competitive compensation, offering professional development
opportunities, and building incentives for improved services.
SAEM GOAL 8.1:
The Division will upgrade and maintain its staff and student use
of technology.
OBJECTIVE 8.1.1: To assist in the development
and implementation of a system
that fully integrates information resources and technology into
the administration of the University.
OBJECTIVE 8.1.2: To provide all staff and students
with access to and training for computing.
SAEM GOAL 9.1:
The Division of Student Affairs will respond to the rising expectations
that the
infrastructure that it oversees (offices, buildings, housing,
recreational space) will be constructed, maintained and improved.
OBJECTIVE 9.1.1: To assist the President in
seeking funding for the construction of a 400-bed, apartment-style,
residence hall.
OBJECTIVE 9.1.2: To assist the Physical Plant
staff in the implementation of a
preventive maintenance schedule for all facilities.
OBJECTIVE 9.1.3: To assist the President in
the development of a plan to fund the renovation of the residence
halls and Student Union Building.
OBJECTIVE 9.1.4: To implement, in cooperation
with the Physical Plant, a schedule of checks to ensure facility
compliance with state and federal regulations.
OBJECTIVE 9.1.5: To develop, within the Division
and with Fiscal Affairs staff, a five-year schedule of all capital
needs that will be updated annually.
SAEM GOAL 10.1:
The Division, in conjunction with Development and External Affairs,
will
aggressively seek external funding for the enhancement of existing
programs and the development of new programs.
SAEM GOAL 11.1:
The Division will manage its operating and capital budget and
employ cost
containment strategies that improve the effectiveness and efficiency
of services.
OBJECTIVE 11.1.1: To link strategic planning
to resource allocations within the
Division.
OBJECTIVE 11.1.2: To maintain a cohesive capital
plan that reflects the residence and auxiliary service facility
needs.
OBJECTIVE 11.1.3: To improve services to students,
faculty and staff through more effective systems and the simplification
of administrative processes.
OBJECTIVE 11.1.4: To remain responsible stewards
of the resources of the
University and of the State and Federal government.
OBJECTIVE 11.1.5: To respond quickly to all
external audit, state and federal
requests.
OBJECTIVE 11.1.6: To implement regular, meaningful
performance evaluations of all Division staff.
SAEM GOAL 12.1:
The Division of SAEM managers and staff will promote a management
style
conducive to positive relations with all of its constituencies.
OBJECTIVE 12.1.1: To encourage faculty, staff,
and students to view themselves as members of one community, whose
morale and productivity depend on working towards a common purpose.
OBJECTIVE 12.1.2: To educate Division staff
and the campus regarding issues of unrecognized discriminatory
behavior in order to eliminate such behavior and to promote appreciation
for diversity.
SAEM GOAL 13.1:
The Division of SAEM staff will play an integral role in selecting
and implementing an integrated information system for the campus.
OBJECTIVE 13.1.1: To ensure that accurate and
critical data on budgets, students, personnel, activities, and
needs will be collected in a management information system to
assist internal decision-making.
Lincoln
University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
1570 Baltimore Pike,
P.O. Box 179, Lincoln University, PA 19352 \ (484)
365-8000
