Student Affairs Graduate Student Employee Awards (SAG SEAs) are going Virtual!
The Division of Student Affairs proudly employees over 150 graduate students from a multitude of academic programs. Our division truly appreciates our graduate students' valuable work, professionalism and dedication they provide as leaders within Student Affairs and the University community.
We would like to honor those graduate student employees who meet the criteria and exemplify commitment to our Core Values and Strategic Priorities.
The first Student Affairs Graduate Student Employee Awards (SAG SEAs) will be held on Thursday, April 2nd at 12:30 pm, virtually.
The awards ceremony will celebrate our outstanding graduate students and their achievements within their designated departments or within the division. Supervisors will have the opportunity to celebrate their staff member by accompanying them at the ceremony.
There will be 10 (ten) awards presented, one in each of the following areas:
Strategic Priorities
Student Safety, Health and Wellness: We are committed to providing high quality programs, services, and facilities that promote and support student safety, health, and wellness. We work to cultivate a safe and caring environment that encourages personal responsibility and healthy choices.
Quality of Student Life: We support student development, retention, and graduation by advocating for students, fostering campus involvement and civic engagement, and modeling the values of the diversity plan and community pledge through services and programs that provide social, cultural, recreational, academic, and leadership development.
Student Experiential Learning and Development: We are committed to providing high quality out-of-classroom experiences. Structured well, these experiences can contribute to student learning and development as well as give students a competitive advantage for career, education, and degree opportunities beyond Stony Brook. Our vision is for every Stony Brook University student to participate in at least one experiential learning activity.
Student Success: We embrace a vision of success for undergraduate and graduate students that is multidimensional, complex, and nuanced. We support student success, retention, and graduation by providing programs, services, and facilities that engage students in their continuous development.
Organizational Excellence: We recognize that through a skilled and passionate workforce, as well as a culture of organizational excellence, we provide the highest quality programs and services to our students and peers. We commit to enhance our practices in resource management to advance our operation and ensure we are excellent, cost-effective, and accessible .
Core Values
Respect: Continuously design for and act to enrich and celebrate our diversity and application of equity that foster respect, compassion, and pride.
Inclusion: Promote openness towards an inclusive campus community that encourages students to respectfully explore and exchange ideas and perspectives.
Responsibility: Develop students as civic-minded citizens who are environmentally, intellectually, globally, personally and socially conscious.
Partnership: Provide opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to collaborate on and strengthen learning experiences in the classroom and beyond.
Excellence: Relentlessly pursue excellence with creativity and courage, while adapting and moving beyond the status quo through continuous quality improvement.