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Alcohol Permits

Annual Club Registration

Chalking

Co Funding Board

Contracts

Event Notification Form

Food Services

Inspiring Leaders Certificate Program

Joint Club Board

Mail for Clubs

Mass Email

Movies

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Trip Waivers

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Student Activities & Leadership Development

Mission:

The department's mission is to enhance the quality of campus life through services and facilitation of integrated learning opportunities. These opportunities foster social, educational, cultural, and leadership development in collaboration with institutional initiatives.

 

Philosophy:

To achieve this mission, our department will work to:

• encourage student involvement
• provide learning through experience
• strengthen respect for all persons
• help students work collaboratively with others
• promote all aspects of community life
• support programming, leadership development and club organization
• support students in their self-directed activities and events
• support gender-specific and co-educational programming
• show the need for recreation and leisure in a healthy lifestyle
• provide a balance between work and leisure

 

Core Values:

The following core values can be found throughout our department:

• Learning - We compliment and enhance the classroom experience.
• Service - We are dedicated to serving students and our broader community. 
• Advocacy - We strive to be student advocates.
• Balance - We work for wellness and balance in our activities and events.
• Ethical Decision Making - We believe in honesty and integrity.
• Stewardship - We use resources as effectively and efficiently as possible.
• Community - We desire a supportive and inclusive office environment and campus community where everyone feels welcome.

 

Inspiring Leaders Certificate Program (ILCP)

Our leadership program seeks to prepare students for authentic leadership roles grounded in Benedictine Values.

Our mission is achieved through education, development and training in an extensive series of non-academic credit ILCP workshops, events and activities in partnership with CSB/SJU campus programs.

ILCP provides a unique values-based curriculum in leadership certification.  The foundation of our program highlights five exemplary principles of leadership and the Benedictine Values which support them.

Levels of Leadership Certification 

• Bronze Life Skills Certificate
• Silver Practicing Leadership Certificate
• Gold Personal Leadership Model Certificate
• Opal Intercultural Competency Certificate
• Ruby Leadership for the Information Age Certificate
• Emerald Professional Development Certificate

 

Orientation

Student Activities and Leadership Development hosts a first-year orientation program designed to answer any questions that new students might have about the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University and to help you become familiar with the campus and campus life.

During Orientation First-Year women and men are led by amazing Student Orientation Leaders who take them through several fun days of learning about what it means to be Bennies and Johnnies.  New students get to know other CSB/SJU students, become acquainted with the campuses, and attend programs that help them prepare for their first year at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University.