Student Services include a variety of campus-based activities designed to assist potential and current students in gathering information, making decisions about their lives, and implementing plans for their future. Student Services staff facilitate success for people from an early informational stage to beyond graduation.

Goals of Ridgewater College Student Services Department

The Department of Student Services strives to meet the following goals:

1) To support the mission and vision of Ridgewater College: To provide a system of support to students in their pursuit of their educational goals.

2) High Level of Customer Service: To serve the needs of all callers, visitors, staff, faculty and students in the quickest, most friendly and assistive way possible. We will support, empower and challenge students as they explore, discover, and create their own identities. We will strive to provide the best cultural environment possible for every student, staff and faculty member on our campuses.

3) Recruitment: To recruit students who reflect our communities’ diversity.

4) Matriculation: To admit, assess, advise and place students in classes that optimize their chances to achieve their educational goals.

5) Retention: To offer quality efforts and support services, which encourage and empower students to complete their educational goals.

6) Communities: To participate in our communities to whatever extent possible to positively reflect on Ridgewater College and to encourage community participation and awareness in Ridgewater College.

If you have any questions or concerns about Student Services at Ridgewater College, please contact Heidi Olson, Dean of Students Services at 320-222-5209 or email Heidi.