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Access Opportunity Success

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Access Opportunity Success

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
The mission of Access Opportunity Success (AOS) is to facilitate access to Southwest Minnesota State University's academic programs through programs and services that contribute to individual students' development of academic skills and thinking processes necessary for academic success.

Membership Benefits
AOS provides a TRiO Student Support Services Best Practices program for:

1. Outreach/recruitment and retention of underrepresented students (low-income, first-generation and students of color)

2. To provide advising and supportive services to enable participants to be retained and graduated and, where appropriate, to enroll in graduate and professional programs.

Lifetime membership
Accessibility Services

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Accessibility Services

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
Welcome to Accessibility Services at Southwest Minnesota State University. We coordinate accommodations for students with disabilities and serve as a resource for faculty, staff and the university community in an effort to assure equal access to learning for all.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Admission

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Admission

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
Your success story begins at Southwest Minnesota State University! We are so happy you've decided to check us out online and we are ready to share all of the great things about SMSU with you! SMSU offers 50+ majors, 100+ clubs and organizations, athletics, fine arts and much, much more!

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Business Services

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Business Services

Department/Program

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Mission

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Campus Dining

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Campus Dining

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Mission

Membership Benefits
The newly remodeled dining facility includes ten different stations featuring an all-you-care-to-eat dining area. Including options for: G8 Allergen-Friendly Station, Terra Vegetarian, All-Day Breakfast Grill, Hearth Stone Ovens Pizza & Pasta, and The Kitchen, which features carved meats and home-style entrees.

Lifetime membership
Career Services

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Career Services

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Mission
Career Services provides comprehensive career resources to assist SMSU students and alumni with their career development and employment goals. The role of Career Service is not to act as a placement center. Career Services strives to equip students with resources to successfully manage their career development during their academic experience and beyond their graduation.

Membership Benefits
Career Services can assist you in choosing a major, developing career plans, applying to graduate schools, or looking for internships and full time employment.

Lifetime membership
Center for Civic and Community Engagement

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Center for Civic & Community Engagement

Department/Program - Governance

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Mission
Southwest Minnesota State University prepares students to meet the complex challenges of this century as engaged citizens in their local and global communities

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Center for International Education

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Center for International Education

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
The Center for International Education (CIE) at Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU) serves students from around the world and the wider community to promote international education and cross-cultural understanding.

CIE provides advice, counseling, and advocacy regarding international student visas, academic issues and personal matters for international students.

CIE serves the wider university community by supporting study abroad initiatives and promoting a campus environment conducive to international education and intercultural awareness via educational, social, and cross-cultural programming.

Membership Benefits
The CIE is the primary contact for international students from the time of application to graduation. We look forward to assisting you while you attend Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU)! We will do our best to make SMSU your "home-away-from-home."

Throughout your studies we will do what we can to help you adjust to the culture and support you as you strive to accomplish your academic and career goals. Not only is our office is here to assist you whenever we can, we also host many university events throughout the year. We look forward to meeting you soon!

Lifetime membership
Child Care Center

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Child Care Center

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Mission
We have one goal at Southwest Minnesota State Day Care Center: to provide the kind of care and education you want for your child. This included helping teach children lessons that will last throughout their lives like sharing, cooperation, self-confidence, and respect for others. We are constantly researching to stay current on children development and early childhood education.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Communications and Marketing

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Communications and Marketing

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Mission
The SMSU Office of Communications and Marketing is responsible for communications, public relations, promotions, and marketing on behalf of the University through the distribution of information in a variety of formats.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Dean of Students

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Dean of Students

Department/Program - Governance

Website

Contact: Jefferson Lee, Email group officers

Mission
The top priority of Student Services at SMSU is to provide excellent services and programs in support of student learning. Working together with students, faculty and staff, we create and support a student-centered environment that encourages student exploration, leadership and critical thinking to prepare students to meet the complex challenges of this century as engaged citizens in their local and global communities.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Deeann Griebel Student Success Center
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Deeann Griebel Student Success Center

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
The Deeann Griebel Student Success Center at Southwest Minnesota State University strives to engage each student equitably throughout their experience at SMSU. We holistically support students in achieving their academic, social, and professional success.

Membership Benefits

Deeann Griebel Student Success Center has a total of .

Event Contributor - x1
Lifetime membership
Financial Aid

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Financial Aid

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Mission
The mission of the Student Financial Aid Office is to provide fair, equitable, and unbiased service to students seeking financial aid. This mission supports the mission of the University by helping students find financial means that enable them to enroll in and complete their academic programs. The office guarantees delivery of federal and state financial assistance to students within rules and regulations established by the respective departments of education. The Student Financial Aid Office coordinates all federal, state, and institutional financial assistance, including grants, scholarships, student employment, and student loans.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Honors Program

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Honors Program

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
The Honors Program at Southwest Minnesota State University offers qualified students from all disciplines enhanced opportunities to develop leadership skills, engaged critical thinking, and global consciousness. The Honors Program supports an undergraduate education through a rigorous and challenging curriculum with a focus on the individual student’s potential talents, interests, and abilities. Honors Program students are encouraged to design an academic plan that creates innovative experiences, exploration of diversity, interdisciplinary connections, and contributions to the community.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
LGBTQ plus Center

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LGBTQ+ Center

Department/Program

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Mission
The LGBTQ+ Center offers a welcoming environment with couches, a table and chairs for studying or meeting, a reading chair, and a computer. Students, faculty, and staff who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community are welcome to spend time in the center, enjoy a beverage, meet with others, browse the library, and make use of our free resources.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
McFarland Library

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McFarland Library

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
The McFarland Library provides diverse teaching and learning opportunities to the SMSU community through access to essential resources, instruction, services, and spaces.

Membership Benefits
The McFarland Library promotes the success of the SMSU community by providing access to high-quality resources, instruction, services, and spaces that support research, teaching, and learning in an inviting and inclusive environment.

Lifetime membership
Mental Health Counseling Center

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Mental Health Counseling Center

Department/Program - Academic, Interest/Affinity

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Mission
College is a time of change that can be very exciting as well as stressful and challenging. Stress, depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, loneliness, or other personal issues can affect students' well-being. SMSU Mental Health Counseling Center is staffed by mental health professionals who provide confidential, short-term counseling services.

Counseling is available and free to students who are currently enrolled at SMSU and who reside in the state of Minnesota at the time of counseling. Students do not have to be in crisis to access counseling services!

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Mustang Card

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Mustang Card

Department/Program

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Mission
The Mustang Card is a simple convenient all-in-one card that will help make your campus life easier!

The Mustang Card is your:
Library Card
Event Access Card
SMSU Dining Services Card
Student Activities Access Card
Community Transit Bus Card
Campus Bookstore Card
Vending Machine Card

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Mustang Pathway

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Mustang Pathway

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
In line with Minnesota State’s 2030 Goal to “eliminate the educational equity gaps,” the Mustang Pathway Program is an adaptive entry program with transition points that meets students where they are. The program is designed to help students achieve growth, success, perseverance and resiliency to matriculate to graduation. As reflective of MinnState FY2020 and Beyond Strategic Repositioning, the Mustang Pathway Program plans to eliminate “the educational equity gaps across racial/ethnic groups, socio-economic classes, rural and urban divides, and historically marginalized segments of the population” (MinnState 2019, p.2).

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Office of Diversity and Inclusion

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Office of Diversity & Inclusion

Department/Program - Interest/Affinity

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Mission
The mission of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion is to provide an inclusive, quality and comprehensive educational experience for students from all religions, races, ethnicities, genders, ages, sexual orientation and countries. We work engage to the campus and surrounding communities by promoting and advocating for diversity and multiculturalism.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion works with all SMSU constituents to help ensure a quality university education for all students - one that encourages a diverse, multicultural, and inclusive educational experience. A special emphasis is directed toward supporting and retaining domestic students of color and international students.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Office of Student Engagement

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Office of Student Engagement

Department/Program

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Mission

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
President’s Office

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President's Office

Department/Program - Governance

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Mission
Southwest Minnesota State University prepares students to meet the complex challenges of this century as engaged citizens in their local and global communities. Our comprehensive degree programs, taught in the liberal arts tradition, are dedicated to connecting students’ academic and practical professional development experiences in southwestern Minnesota to the wider world.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Registration and Records

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Registration and Records

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Mission
The mission of the SMSU Registration & Records Office is to provide excellent and timely service using current best practices for registration, records management, advising, transfer evaluation and degree completion management.

In addition, we will strive to educate and empower SMSU students, faculty and staff to know and understand SMSU academic policies and services to maintain academic integrity.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Student Activities Office

Student Activities Office

Department/Program - Governance

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Mission

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Student Health Services

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Student Health Services

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Mission
Health Services is located in BA 158 with office hours Monday through Friday 9:00 am to 3:30pm. If your need to see a medical provider, we can assist with scheduling through ACCESS Health-Marshall or you may contact them directly at 507-476-4800.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Technology Resource Center ( TRC )
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Technology Resource Center (TRC)

Department/Program

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Contact: Yemi Adelakun, Email group officers

Mission
SMSU Information Technology Services strives to be both a proactive and responsive service organization that fully supports the University community in the innovative utilization of information technology resources. Our mission is to provide a wide spectrum of quality information technology services and support that meet the requirements of the entire University community.

Membership Benefits

Technology Resource Center (TRC) has a total of .

Master Messenger - x1

Event Contributor - x3
Lifetime membership
University Public Safety

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University Public Safety

Department/Program

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Mission

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Veterans Resource Center

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Veterans Resource Center

Department/Program - Interest/Affinity

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Mission
Serving soldiers and their families…

We have staff at SMSU to help you and your family with your educational benefits and the enrollment process.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Women’s Center

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Women's Center

Department/Program - Interest/Affinity

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Mission

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership
Writing Center

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Writing Center

Department/Program - Academic

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Mission
Located in BA 527, the SMSU Writing Center serves to help undergraduate and graduate students with their writing needs. Writing Center tutors can work with you on any style of paper throughout varying disciplines. Whether you need help identifying a topic, organizing ideas, or learning how to cite appropriately, tutors will guide you through the writing process while helping you to become a more independent writer.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership