Departments
Find out how Student Affairs departments contribute to a dynamic campus life. Visit the Student Affairs departmental sites below for information regarding the programs and services they offer.
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Office of the Dean of Students
The Office of the Dean of Students provides assistance, intervention, prevention, and referral services to the college community. The office also serves as an advocate for students while challenging students to develop personal responsibility, practice ethical decision-making, and seek social justice as they grow into creative citizens.
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Campus Life
Campus Life’s educational priority is to craft a campus experience that empowers students to become good neighbors & global creative citizens. Our work is firmly grounded in the Creative Accord and its four guiding principles: Radical Responsibility, Think Beyond, Cultivate Creative Action, and Become chimeraMade. The Learning Goals & Learning Outcomes of Campus Life strive to achieve the stated educational priority and awaken the Creative Accord and its principles in the daily work of Campus Life.
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Center for Art & Public Life (CAPL)
CAPL promotes positive social impact by cultivating and sustaining meaningful connections with CCA students, faculty and members of Bay Area Communities and beyond to invest in creative practices that seek solutions to some of the most pressing problems of our times.
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Counseling & Psychological Services
CCA Counseling & Psychological Services is committed to the personal development and professional advancement of students engaged in an arts-based educational environment fostering creativity, curiosity, and diversity. Counseling & Psychological Services encourages student success and well-being by providing a broad spectrum of mental health services, including individual therapy, crisis intervention, consultation, referral, workshops on mental health topics, and outreach.
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International Student Services (ISS)
The International Student Services (ISS) office promotes international education within the greater CCA community and supports student success at CCA.
Through education and resources, ISS broadens students’ understanding of US federal immigration regulations and assists students as they navigate cultural and academic transitions.
ISS values diversity in all forms and challenges CCA students to increase their awareness of global perspectives as an integral part of their growth into artist citizens.
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Student Belonging & Inclusion
The Office of Student Belonging and Inclusion works to create a community of care at CCA that cultivates an inclusive and vibrant campus experience that facilitates student engagement, social inclusion, intellectual curiosity, and personal exploration by working within our globally and culturally diverse college community. Through our initiatives and programs, we strive to advocate for and uplift voices of BIPOC students, women, LGBTQQIP2SAA students, first generation students, and other historically marginalized and/or underrepresented populations. We are here to support these students to develop and sustain a strong sense of belonging and connection within the CCA community.
We value civic responsibility, community engagement, creative collaborations, affirming multiple and intersecting identities, cultural competence, and modeling honesty, integrity, and social justice.
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Student Services
Student Services is the collective name for all the offices that support the business of being a student.
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