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So our main role is to serve students with a variety of ways in academic support. That can be by way of tutoring, supplemental instruction, study groups that we help form. We have workshops. We have also academic support appointments where individual students can meet with professionals to talk about some issues that they're having or different areas that they want to improve upon. We really do enjoy and focus on promoting health and well-being for our students. One of the ways that we do that is try to prepare them for their time here at OU. So that can be math workshops prior to their first year with us, encouraging them to attend those that they're ready to attend, know how to take notes, what exams look like. Throughout the semester, we're encouraging them to get tutoring or come in to see a professional for an academic support meeting to address individual challenges, to help kind of reduce that stress level and maybe get them in contact with other free campus resources. We are in Wilson Hall, suite 1100. You can always go to our website, drordi.com slash ASC, and that will give you all of the contact information, including our email address and phone number, our social media, so any way that really works for you.

At the Graham Health Center, we're here to take care of the Oakland University campus community. So our primary focus is the students of Oakland University. We really want to help make sure that people stay healthy or get healthy if they're not feeling well so they can do well in school. And so we also take care of the employees of the campus if there's injuries, workplace injuries or illness or also some preventative healthcare. We can help students who are not feeling well. It could be a minor cold or allergies or it could be something more severe like influenza or COVID or any other illness that might affect their ability to do well in school. And so as we're being here to help support the students, we try to also do a lot of health education and that could be in our visits with students or any patients that we see as well as doing outreach work, helping to educate individuals, not just on how to take care of themselves but how to access healthcare, which is really a skill that they'll need for the rest of their future and their life. The Graham Health Center is located at 408 Meadowbrook Road. We really encourage people to embrace and start using the patient portal. Everyone at OU, as long as you have an access ID, has a patient portal available to them and so we encourage people to use that. Even if you've never been seen at Graham Health Center, you still have a patient portal. And so you can log into that, ask questions, send a secure message. It is secured just between the health center staff and that individual. And so you can ask a personal health question, anything that might be on their mind, no matter what time of day or night. That's available 24 hours a day. People can also call us at 248-370-2341 and leave a voicemail or if during business hours, we'll be able to take your call. And then also our health center email. So health at Oakland.edu is another way.

Primarily, the Dean of Students Office supports students through any policy that impacts students in any way. Obviously, what people think about a lot is disciplinary things like student code of conduct or academic misconduct policy. But we do a lot more than that. We have policies such as a bereavement policy where we're seen. We guide students through any potential difficulty they might be having on campus, whether it's something that we personally oversee in our office or connecting them to the right resource. As Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, my job very much like the Dean of Students Office is connected to everyone, primarily making sure that everyone regardless of their role is seen and respected on campus. If a student is struggling with their mental health or with their physical health or academically or not feeling like they belong, they're not gonna be able to be successful in the classroom, certainly not being able to achieve whatever academic or professional goals they have. I'm very excited to share where we're designing our website so that our students can find their student support services links and any information that you might want or that you are wondering what else we do, that I'm not mentioning today. We're located in the Oakland Center, Suite 150. The Dean of Students at drordi.com is a way to contact us, also calling our phone number, 248-370-3352.

The purpose of the OU Counseling Center is we're the main mental health place for students on campus. We like to say we're the community mental health for the community of Oakland University. Services that we provide that positively impact the health and wellbeing on OU's campus is pretty much all of them. We do obviously counseling and therapy as our main service, which has a very direct impact on the mental health and wellbeing of our students. We also do crisis management, crisis sessions, consultations.(...) We do lots of outreach as well, where we do lots of workshops, trainings, and then we also have a full-fledged group program, which we started last year. So every week there's upwards of six groups running at any given day during the week on a variety of topics. And those obviously have a very positive and direct impact on students as well. So we're located in the Graham Health Center building. We're on the east wing of it. The best way to contact us is actually several different ways. People can come walk right in and contact us as well. We take walk-ins, we have emergency hours every day of the week where people are available for a crisis.(...) So people can just come in to set up an appointment. They can also call our main line at 248-370-3465. They could also email any of the staff directly. I often, as the director and then my assistant director, Dr. Sanders, we often get emails from professors or students. And that's another way you can contact. So coming in, calling, or emailing.

So the main purpose of our department is to help students with all of their financial aid questions, we help with scholarships and grants, loans, even student employment. We also help answer any FAFSA questions, help them with understanding their award offer and options for paying for college. We also help them when the bill comes, work out what other financial options they may have and how payment plans work. We help with the wellbeing because we know that paying for college can be a stressful time and we try to make it the less stressful that it can be for them. We're here to help the students and their families with any questions they may have so that they're very comfortable knowing what college is going to cost and what they're going to need to pay so that when they start school, they can have a clear idea and not have anything to worry about and just be able to focus on school. We also have events throughout the year that they can attend for FAFSA workshops and other things like that. They're all on our website just so that they can be ahead of the game before classes start. We are located at 120 North Foundation Hall. The best way to contact us would be you can come in in person, we're always happy to see your face, you can call us, you can email us, we do virtual appointments, we will answer your questions. However you feel comfortable asking them, we really are just here to help.