The Office of the Dean of Students provides services in academic, multicultural affairs and international affairs. Through a 24-hour on-call program, one of the professional members of the staff is available to assist students and parents at any hour.
The office's departmental objectives are:
- to provide a safe, healthy environment in which students study, learn and grow
- to support the intellectual life on campus
- to support a diverse student body
- to enrich the lives of all students by expanding their cultural horizons
- to safeguard the rights and to promote the responsibility of all students
- to offer academic counseling
- to address matters of misconducts in a just, compassionate, yet firm manner
- to seek student opinion and be accessible to students
- to assist parents in understanding the Colby experience
- to develop and support student leaders
- to assist students and families in times of crisis
