ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND FACTS

UWSP Student Affairs Division

The Counseling Center provides services and programs which will enable students to learn skills, attitudes, and behaviors for healthy personal development and successful academic progress. The Counseling Center seeks to promote these learning goals through counseling and psychotherapy, education, self-help, and consultation. Counseling Center services are integrated with the academic mission of this institution and involve collaboration and consultation with faculty, staff and administration in order to achieve institutional goals. Through the use of Counseling Center services students learn skills which promote academic success and enhance their effectiveness as citizens. Students have the opportunity to learn to effectively manage personal problems and institutional crises, learn strategies to cope with academic stress, develop self-management skills and values, learn to function independently, and enhance learning skills and motivation.

The Health Service actively pursues the Board of Regents’ stated goal that each campus should have a health service that supports the educational mission of the University so there is "as little hindrance as possible due to illness, both physical and emotional, and injury". The UWSP Health Service has a documented record of providing the types of services recommended in the UW-System policy document regarding health services. For the past several years, the vast majority of Health Service human and financial resources (90%) have been spent delivering personal medical services to students. These services are usually transparent to the rest of the campus. The Health Service also provides health promotion, health education, and environmental health services for the campus. Last year, the Health Service staff saw over 23,000 patients, provided 20,000 lab tests, wrote 2500 class or activity medical clearances and prepared more than 10,000 prescriptions.

University Housing supports the academic mission of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The first step in carrying out this mission is to provide safe, well maintained facilities that are designed to accommodate the changing needs of our student population and support the program objectives of the department. Our program objectives include providing students with academic support and enhanced opportunities for personal growth in a community which promotes the development of citizenship, leadership, tolerance, and appreciation for diversity. This is accomplished by residence life staff who encourage a positive living environment, support students in making a successful transition to the university community, and assist students in accessing campus resources. In addition to providing an intentional living learning community for our students, University Housing also provides housing for a variety of groups who visit our campus as participants in a summer conference program.

The Student Rights and Responsibilities office serves the university community by communicating the laws, policies, procedures and behavioral standards of the University of Wisconsin-System, by administering the student conduct/judicial process and by providing educational programs for those engaged in inappropriate, addictive or violent behaviors which create personal and/or community problems.

The University Centers extend services and amenities to the university community and guests, promote complementary educational programs and provide a variety of environments which serve as a unifying force in the life of the university. Centers policies and programs are guided by the University Centers Advisory and Policy Board. Since the DeBot Dining, Allen Recreational and the University Community Centers are used and funded by student fees and program revenue, the policy board is primarily made up of students. Together, the centers encompass 223,000 square feet and employ nearly 480 students in the implementation of its various services and programs. During a typical year, the centers serve over 1.5 million meals, handle nearly 200,000 textbooks, and communicate with 700 officers of more than 150 student organizations. The staff produces over 200 activities annually, manages a fitness center, a dance club, a recreation facility, and an information center.

The centers also provide space for campus retail stores and shops, and provide logistical support for nearly 4,700 meetings, workshops and seminars which extend the university’s learning environment beyond the formal curriculum. During the summer months, these same facilities are used to provide conference space for over 20,000 people who attend 75 conferences. In short, the centers try to provide everything members of the university community need...and most of what they want.