The Office of Student Affairs exists for the students. Its reason for being is to provide opportunities for growth, enhance the quality of life, complement the academic pursuit by providing various services and activities that shall contribute to the total development of the person prepared to be an effective, competent and productive member of society.

The College has a vast array of programs for student development on and off campus. These are cultural, professional, spiritual, athletic, values, co-curricular and other enrichment activities. These are offered to students who desire to expand their horizons and at the same time make their life on campus more enriching, interesting and rewarding. Such activities are under the umbrella of the Office of Student Affairs.

On a broad sense, the office supervises student organizations, publication, discipline, spiritual formation, leadership training, advising, guidance and counseling, co-curricular activities, extra-curricular activities, enrichment programs, values education, student evaluation of faculty and offices, and other student services and activities beyond the classroom.

The office is directly in charge of student organizations, with the Central Student Council as the supreme organization. Each college has its own student council. In addition, there are thirty recognized student organizations for this school year.. This is to ensure that student leadership and activities are properly managed and implemented with direct participation of students as part of their holistic development.

The title of the head of office used to be Dean, however, in 1997, the title was changed to Vice President together with the Vice Presidents for Academic Affairs and Vice President for Administration. Through the years, the office has been handled by competent men and women whose main concern is the total development of the student and the instilling of values that reflect the Mission-Vision of the College.

Philosophy

Student Affairs is an office designed to advocate the vision-mission of Emilio Aguinaldo College. It exists primarily on the existence of students; thus, functioning in the service of their interest. It works on the basis of its essence by providing various programs and activities that would contribute to their totality. It, likewise, offers opportunities that students may be responsible for or may benefit for their individual growth. It does not only perform such formative programs, but also strives to espouse and to supervise student-designed-program; be it academic, religious, civic, and cultural, which they would like to go through for themselves and with their fellow students.

As a whole, the office is a depot of comprehensive programs. We believe that certain program’s comprehensiveness is not realized by itself, but by the students themselves who are subjected to it. By simply having comprehension of the program’s substance is not only what we tend to reach, because we believe, a student enhanced with all the values and skills essential to the challenges of the future, does not stop on the grasped of substance but by even reflecting and wondering further and, that when it enlarges and deepens within, it commences to unbolt the door to the wisdom he needs for the right attitude in life.

Objectives

The objectives of the Office of Student Affairs are to:

1. Continuously maintain and enhance its existing programs.
2. Make visible the relevance of each program and the benefits each student could avail of to develop the right attitude after graduation.
3. Promote the spiritual, civic and cultural responsiveness in each program.
4. Provide creative and original program of activities such as seminars/formative lectures.
5. Supervise all aspects of students’ endeavors in their respective college or organization.
6. Continuously encourage the students to formulate programs for the community.
7. Encourage all students to be members of certain recognized school organizations.

The specific functions of the Office of Student Affairs are as follows:

1. Supervises, as Administration liaison with the Central Student Council, the different student organization with the assistance of their respective advisers.
2. Supervises student publications with the assistance of their respective advisers; provides technical guidance and ensures professionalism in the management and writings skills of student writers. All student publications including newsletters and mimeographed release must be conferred with the Office of Student Affairs before and after circulation.
3. Reaccredits student organizations upon consultation with the College President for approval.
4. Maintains good order and discipline among students.
5. Performs the duties of a counselor adviser to those with disciplinary problems.
6. Plans and coordinates the freshmen orientation.
7. Supervises student activities sponsored by the Central Student Council student organizations.
8. Approves seminar workshops to upgrade and maintain a high level of management efficiency and effectiveness sponsored by student organizations.
9. Approves student organizations plan of activities upon consultation with the College President.
10. Supervises and regulates the operations and activities of all duly recognized student organizations in cooperation with the Student Council, for the purpose of providing guidance for the maximum utilization of human potentials and resources and efforts toward the attainment of goals of the organization as envisioned in their approved constitution and by-laws. Similarly, audits and evaluates the program afterwards.
11. Supervises and evaluates proposed Educational Field Trips.
12. Supervises election of officers Central Student Council held on or before the 8th week of the first semester.
13. Oversees and implement the Enrichment Program (EP)
14. Issues Good Moral Certificate
15. Announces and schedules photography for all graduating students for the annual year book, Fortress. Likewise, lays out the Fortress.
16. Regulates and scrutinizes Educational Field Trips
17. Guides and offers advice to the Central Student Council, College Councils and Student Organizations.
18. Sanctions written and verbal announcements.
19. Coordinates with all Student Personnel Services Offices.