Departments

  • 4D Experience

    A holistic educational experience

    Our holistic, comprehensive approach to education is called the 4D Experience. The goal is to empower you to build an educational experience that aligns with your goals and interests, as well as in service of the public good. This means that each student can build towards a future where they're able to draw on their own passions and perspectives while strengthening the communities around them.

    Student Affairs' role in that process centers around two specific goals: Exploring Character and Promoting Well-Being.

  • Business Operations & Division Resources

    Resourcing SAIE

    Business Operations & Division Resources (BODR) is the central Student Affairs budget and resource office. Located in Driscoll Commons and serving all 25 SA units, BODR is guided by the below mission and values.

    Mission Statement: To create partnerships that empower, educate, and support student and staff stakeholders, by providing resources and services that support the mission of Student Affairs.

    Team Values:

    •  Educate
    •  Integrity
    •  Partnership
    •  Service
    •  Stewardship
  • Center for Advocacy, Prevention & Empowerment (CAPE)

    Supporting Survivors

    CAPE supports survivor healing by providing advocacy and support for survivors of sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and sexual harassment.

  • Counseling Services

    Confidential, Professional Mental Health Support

    The Health & Counseling Center provides emotional and behavioral health services to support your mental well-being and academic success. Our staff includes licensed psychologists, counselors, and social workers offering confidential assistance with both situational and ongoing issues. Services are available to all on-campus undergraduate and graduate students, with individual, couples and group therapy options available.

  • Dean of Student (DOS) Office

    When you do not know where to start, start with YOUR Dean of Students (DoS) Office.

    The Dean of Students Office serves as a central hub to connect all students to supportive campus and community resources to successfully navigate their DU experience.

  • FIRST @ DU

    Support & Guidance for Underrepresented Students

    FIRST @ DU provides support for pathway program, first-generation, minoritized and other underrepresented students through:

    • community activities
    • mentorship
    • academic success workshops
    • leadership development
    • resource referrals
    • scholarship support
  • Fraternity & Sorority Life (FSL)

    Building Lifelong Relationships

    Fraternity & Sorority Life at DU works to promote opportunities for lifelong friendship, leadership development, scholarship enhancement and social interaction.

  • Health & Counseling Center

    Promoting Well-Being

    The Health & Counseling Center ("the HCC") is students’ on-campus resource for quality medical and mental healthcare services, useful and engaging health education information, and support through transitions and challenges. We also work with campus and community partners to support your wider well-being and success in studies and life.

  • Health Promotion

    Thrive at DU

    Health Promotion envisions a future where every member of the DU community will have the opportunity to learn, connect and thrive in a supportive campus community. They work to accomplish this through education, engagement and sociocultural change.

  • Housing & Residential Education

    Campus-Wide Community

    DU Housing & Residential Education works to make residential life a positive, meaningful experience from which each of our students can grow and learn.

  • Learning Effectiveness Program (LEP)

    Embracing Neurodiversity

    The Learning Effectiveness Program (LEP) provides individualized support for neurodiverse learners with learning disabilities, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), students on the Autism Spectrum and students who have a history of learning differences.

  • Medical Services

    Convenient, Quality Primary Care

    The Health & Counseling Center offers a range of professionally administered medical services, including primary (basic prevention, illness, and injury) care, immunizations, lab tests, travel health, sexual and reproductive health, and more.

  • New Student & Family Programs

    Easing the Transition

    New Student and Family Programs is committed to the successful transition of new students and families into the DU community. They support this mission by providing inclusive, holistic programming designed to help students succeed, meet their goals, and develop meaningful connections with other students and families.

  • Social Justice Education (SJE)

    Informed. Engaged. Impactful.

    Formerly Inclusion & Equity Education, SJE provides students with information, skills, and opportunities for constructive engagement across difference through workshops, events and online resources.

  • Spiritual Life

    Developing and exploring lives of purpose

    As part of its 4D framework, DU supports students in developing and exploring lives of purpose—including spiritual purpose. And we define spiritual purpose broadly. This includes a wide range of existential explorations, mindful meaning-making, authentic and ethical pathfinding, spiritual and religious identities and expressions, religious pluralism, and interfaith/interreligious bridge-building. 

  • Student Activities & Leadership

    Building Relationships and Deepening Experiences

    We believe in unleashing students' potential to lead and impact the world by providing all University of Denver students a co-curricular experience which empowers them to explore, connect, and grow.

  • Student Disability Services (SDS)

    Accommodations, Support & More

    SDS is dedicated to giving students with disabilities an equal opportunity to participate in the University’s programs, courses and activities, and provides accommodations at no cost to any student who has a documented disability. Accommodations include:

    • Test accommodations (examples: extended time, minimal distraction)
    • Alternate format texts & materials
    • Course substitutions
    • Classroom changes
    • Audio recording of lectures
    • Required meal-plans
    • Early registration
    • Notetakers
    • Sign language/oral interpreters
    • Speech-to-Text services
    • Referrals to other services and programs
  • Student Outreach & Support (SOS)

    Make the Most of Life at DU

    Student Outreach & Support (SOS) helps students succeed by connecting them to resources, developing plans of action to meet their goals, and helping navigate challenging situations. The SOS staff creates an inclusive and welcoming environment for students to develop skills in self-awareness, self-advocacy, resilience and navigation that will serve them throughout their educational experience.

  • Student Rights & Responsibilities (SRR)

    Upholding the Honor Code

    Student Rights & Responsibilities supports the University's mission and strives to achieve a safe campus community by upholding the Honor Code and providing programs and services designed to foster an inclusive campus community and promote opportunities for holistic student living, learning, and growth.

  • Veterans & Military Resources

    Veterans & Military Resources

    Veterans & Military Resources vision and mission is to support our Veterans through exceptional programming. Veterans & Military Resources supports all levels of Student Veterans attending the University of Denver, starting with the admissions process and extending through Alumni Relations.