About Us
SSU's Residential Community provides comfortable, convenient campus housing for 2,400 single students. Comprised of six residential villages, the Community is an unique mix of non-traditional resident hall suites and campus apartments, all located just seconds from the main campus classroom buildings. All suites and apartments are fully furnished and carpeted with their own living rooms and bathrooms. The apartments also contain their own kitchens with all appliances. All suites and apartments are also wired into the University's computer network, giving residents direct access to the University's computing resources, the library, and the Internet. The Community has its own dining hall, swimming pools, study rooms, convenience store, post office, meeting rooms, and outdoor recreation areas.
The Staff
The Campus Housing Staff is comprised of four professional staff members and three student assistants. Many of the professional staff have earned their degrees at Sonoma State University and have themselves lived in a residential community setting.
Our Purpose
The purpose of Housing Services is to support the University's educational mission by assisting students, faculty, and staff in locating, securing, and maintaining suitable living accommodations. Also imbedded in our purpose is the encouragement and support of student learning and personal development.
Our Mission
- Serve as intermediary agents between our students and University departments to provide well-maintained, safe, and pleasant living accommodations suitable for a learning/living residential experience.
- Outreach to our students by supplying accurate and comprehensive information and materials.
- Guide our students towards methods and tools so that they may adequately transition from home to college and beyond.
Our Values and Commitments
Together, we aspire to conduct ourselves in the following ways:
- Foster a healthy environment with trust, respect, loyalty, and integrity, which allows individuals to work productively and effectively so both the individual and the organization thrive.
- Share knowledge, encourage, recognize and support each other.
- Collaborate and cooperate with staff and students to establish positive working relationships.
- Perform our tasks timely, thoroughly, consistently and accurately while interacting with our clientele in a polite, friendly, professional and efficient manner.
- Take personal responsibility for setting goals, achieving results and optimizing resources through customer-focused, proactive, and accountable actions.
- Display flexibility to adapt and willingness to individually learn, improve, accept feedback, defeats, and account for mistakes.
- Support new ideas, examine operations, and seek opportunities to continually improve the effectiveness of our services.
- Take risks, encourage innovation, and solve situations creatively.
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