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Mission
The mission of the Office of Student Development is to facilitate student
transitions into the academic and social communities of the University of
California, Berkeley and promote student growth, leadership, and social
justice.

Vision
Every day, we strive to become the preeminent student development program in higher education, serving as the Gateway to the Academy.

Values
The foundation for the services we offer is in the values we hold as an organization: academic success; a supportive and developmental transition for students and their families; shared community living and cooperative learning; optimal leadership opportunities for a diverse student body, and a practice of inclusion and social justice in all we do. By definition, what underlies both our philosophic and pragmatic approaches is our reliance upon theoretical assumptions in the fields of College Student Personnel and Higher Education.