Office of the Dean of Students - Mission Statement
The Purposes of the Office of the Dean of Students
Our core purposes are to:
- Create a transformative college experience that dissolves the traditional barriers between in and out of classroom learning
- Enhance academic performance and intellectual excellence by building effective learning communities that emphasize the active engagement of students, faculty, and staff
- Serve as a structural support system that fosters well being, security, safety, accessibility, capability, and encouragement, as well as provide the student with resources for belonging, recognition, contribution, and respect
- Promote healthy lives and balanced minds to ensure the well being of the Vanderbilt community and establish the foundation for individual learning and personal development
- Forge collaborative partnerships to achieve a seamless learning environment that links, aligns, and integrates programmatic and academic endeavors
- Expand opportunities for experiential learning, civic engagement, cultural enrichment, leadership development, and service learning
- Conduct ongoing assessments upon which to generate policies and programs that meet the changing needs and interests of students and to increase our capacity for doing so
- Provide intellectual challenge and increase the overall sense of community by generating dialog around issues of tolerance, justice, moral responsibility, and human dignity
- Espouse, embody and impart the values of the Community Creed within our residential community
Contact Us!
Active Citizenship & Service | Vanderbilt University
Box 6308, Station B | Nashville, TN 37235
615-343-7878