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In addition to the offices of financial aid, registrar, and student accounts, Student Affairs encompasses a number of units providing student support geared with promoting student success. The organization is headed by the Vice President for Student Services and Dean of Students.
Patricia Easton
Vice President for Student Services and Dean of Students
Harper East
Office: (909) 607-9448
The Dean of Students is the primary advocate for student success at CGU, ensuring students receive the support, information, and resources to effectively meet their academic endeavors and achieve their degree goals. Overseeing the spectrum of administrative and professional units of Student Affairs, the Dean of Students espouses a commitment to service as the core of the mission of the organization. Defining service as both helpful assistance and a contribution to the welfare of others, Student Affairs extends beyond administrative compliance with University policies, to encompass the human and personal concerns of students. The Dean of Students welcomes the opportunity to address student need in the areas of religious life, mental and physical health services, housing, and safety. Whatever the challenge a student may face, the Dean of Students’ door is almost always open.
Administrative offices reporting to the Dean of Student include admission, financial aid, housing, registration and student records, and student accounts. Professional units encompass Career Management and the Writing Center, as well as programs such as Disabled Student Services, Minority Mentoring and Preparing Future Faculty. All of these services contribute to a comprehensive effort for advancing the goal of student success–one that extends beyond the graduate school to embrace and embolden the individual’s personal and professional success as well.
Lisa Flores Griffith
Associate Dean of Student Services
131 East Tenth Street
Website: www.cgu.edu/studentsuccess
E-mail: student.success@cgu.edu
Office: (909) 607-1887
The Student Success Center (SSC) provides an array of services to enhance the graduate student experience at CGU. Programs help students develop the knowledge, skills, and capacities flourish. The SSC is comprised of the following offices and programs.
- Career Management
- Digital Learning Lab
- Disability Services
- Preparing Future Faculty
- Student Life & Diversity
- Writing Center
131 East Tenth Street
Website: www.cgu.edu/ocm
E-mail: career.management@cgu.edu
Office: (909) 621-8177
The Office of Career Management focuses on personalized career planning for both students and alumni. Whether your future path is decided or undecided, or even if you are in the midst of reinventing yourself, we can tailor our approach to fit your needs. Our comprehensive services consist of one-on-one appointments, a job search database, workshops, presentations, and events that are designed to educate and illuminate students about careers and the career development process. Through a collaboration with alumni relations, we offer students a unique opportunity to gain insight from dynamic professionals who are knowledgeable and active in their fields. By accessing specific information about career interests, students make informed decisions about acquired and developing competencies for personal growth and an appropriate job fit.
Make an appointment today. The earlier you come in, the more we can do to help you envision and prepare for a successful future.
Director: Dr. Shamini Dias
160 East Tenth Street, Harper 14
Website: www.cgu.edu/digitallearnin
E-mail: digital.learning@cgu.edu
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The Digital Learning Lab (DLL) offers technology-focused resoures and services to CGU students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Recognizing that technology is an integral aspect of teaching, learning, research, and professional work, with constantly emerging products and tools, the DLL offers individual and group coaching by appointment, workshops open the community, and introductions/orientations to useful technology tools for academiic departments.
The DDL’s constantly growing list of technology tools is available on its website. Among the technology tools offered are the following.
- Basic computer/internet navigation
- Citation management tools, such as Mendeley
- Cloud-based collaboration tools, such as Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Skydrive
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- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Publisher
- Word
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The lab is staffed by DDL Fellows, all graduate students.
Lisa Flores Griffith
Associate Dean of Student Services
Harper East
Website: www.cgu.edu/disabilityservices
E-mail: disability.services@cgu.edu
Office: (909) 607-1887
Claremont Graduate University is committed to offering auxiliary aids and services to students with verifiable disabilities, in compliance with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. To ensure that your individual needs are addressed, students with disabilities are encouraged to contact the Associate Dean of Students.
Director: Dr. Shamini Dias
131 East Tenth Street
Website: www.cgu.edu/pff
E-mail: pff@cgu.edu
Office: (909) 607-6225
The Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Program offers open, modular professional development workshops for CGU students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Collaborating with the Digital Learning Lab, Career Management, academic departments, and the Honnold Mudd Library, workshops offered include teaching and learning design, technology integration in research and teaching, and portfolio presentation. In addition, PFF offers individual and group teaching consultations, teaching clinics, and reviews of teaching documents such as course and syllabi design and teaching philosophy statements.
PFF Professional Development Certificate. Students and alumni may earn a Preparing Future Faculty Professional Development Certificate by completing a series of required workshops and a teaching observation practicum. Participants must also submit an e-portfolio with required teaching documents such as a sample syllabus, rubrics, and a teaching philosophy statement.
The certificate program, which is completed at the student’s own pace, assists participants with developing the following skills and abilities.
- Design courses that align learning outcomes with assessment and feedback strategies
- Construct feedback and assessment strategies that engage and facilitate learning
- Ground the design of teaching/learning processes and tools in an understanding of context and key learning and motivation theories
- Plan and facilitate learning processes that engage students in active learning while promoting academic integrity
- Develop a sensitivity to as well as strategies to differentiate learning so as to embrace diversity in learning in all of its forms–culture/ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation, abilities/disabilities, learning styles, life experiences
- Identify and integrate appropriate technology tools in the design of teaching and learning
- Build a reflective practice and identity as a teacher/scholar
Administrator: Aracely Torres
1257 North Dartmouth
Website: www.cgu.edu/studentlife
E-mail: Aracely.torres@cgu.edu
Office: (909) 607-0789
The Office of Student Life & Diversity is committed to developing programs that intentionally address the presence of -isms and oppressive conditions on campus. We strive to create opportunities that focus on academic success, professional and personal development, peer mentoring, leadership development, and collaborate work with constituents of the Claremont University Consortium.
141 East 12th Street
Office: (909) 607-0012
E-mail: writecenter@cgu.edu
Website: http://writecenter.cgu.edu
The Writing Center offers a variety of workshops and consulting services. Workshops address various writing issues and consultants are available to teach directed writing practice in class at the request of faculty.
In-person and online consulting services are also available to students free of charge once a week per semester. Individual consulting sessions focus on assisting students at every stage of their graduate work, including study skills, language development, papers, proposals, qualifying exams, cover letters, articles, interviews, presentations, dissertations, and other communications concerns. Writing Center consultants are trained CGU students with excellent writing skills and teaching or tutoring experience. In addition, staff members are available for both in-person and online consulting. |