The Global/Intercultural requirement underscores UVU's commitment to valuing global/intercultural opinions, backgrounds, traditions, perspectives, and experiences. The Global/Intercultural requirement contributes to student success by fostering an awareness of a variety of cultural perspectives and experiences, which is a vital element of higher education.
Multicultural Services strives to teach and provide intentional programs and services that embrace and validate multicultural education, promote opportunities for intercultural learning, exchange, and appreciation and cultivates an atmosphere of inclusion, diversity, equity, and social change.
The First-Generation Student Success Center is a community of students, staff, faculty, and other key stakeholders that seeks to provide first-generation students with evidence-based supports needed to thrive in their university experience. Here we imagine a world where every first-generation student is empowered to pursue and complete a postsecondary degree, enabling them to achieve their dreams and inspire future generations.
Our programs are designed to help students stay on course and graduate. These programs are designed specifically for women, but are available to every student on campus -- we welcome everyone who comes through our doors.
The Military-Affiliated Student Hubs mission is to “facilitate the successful navigation of student veterans, service members, and their dependents from registration to graduation. We work closely with our students to assist them with their VA education benefits.
The mission of International Student Services is to promote international student success, retention, graduation, and life long learning.
The Wee Care Center provides a safe haven for the children of UVU student-parents. While these parents are pursuing a better life through education, they know their children are being cared for in a warm, inviting, and nurturing environment.
Being a new parent while you're a student can be difficult\nBalancing both educational and parental responsibilities is easier with help from UVU. There are many departments and services across campus where you can find the help you need to succeed academically while taking care of your family.
UVU has numerous ways you can get involved with a wide variety of leadership opportunities. Meet people and build connections with those who have similar interests, feel more connected to the university, and gain skills necessary for success during and after your time at UVU.
UVU Housing and Residence Life connects students to housing resources, housing laws, search info, residential learning, and student housing event life.
Clubs connects students to Utah Valley University in a unique way. Participation in a club reflects each student’s individual interest, hobby, professional aspirations, and/or academic desires while allowing the students to be involved on the level that they are most comfortable.
Student Health Services has a staff united in the goal of serving students in a caring and competent manner. We have low cost and available services for UVU students in the areas of medical and psychiatric care, mental health services, learning disability assessment services, and crisis services. We offer life and health enhancing services that increase safety, productivity, and life experience of the individual and the campus.
At Mental Health Services, we provide assessment and treatment for a variety of mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, trauma, grief, substance abuse, and relationship issues. We offer therapy in a number of formats including: individual therapy, group therapy, and couple’s therapy.
The mission of the intensive English language program at UVU is to help non-native English-speaking students understand and successfully use academic English at an American university. To accomplish this goal, our faculty and coursework provide a broad range of excellent academic and social opportunities. These opportunities help students develop and show proficiency in the skills of reading, writing, grammar and listening/speaking.
Academic Tutoring embraces the power of students helping students and supports all individuals—regardless of identity, culture, point of view, or background—as they navigate the challenges associated with their educational goals. With a focus on gateway major courses, certified student employees work alongside each student to foster serious academic exploration and inspire lifelong learning.
At the Center for Social Impact we provide curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular student experiences in six diverse pathways of social impact. Whether you're a student, faculty, staff, or community member, you can participate in various programs and events, volunteer or recruit volunteers, and enhance your academic experience through our coursework, research, and scholar distinction.
The LEAD program trains UVU students to become leaders within their communities by approaching leadership development as more than simply management. LEAD is a certificate program that focuses on four key areas of personal development: LEARN, ENGAGE, ACQUIRE, DISCOVER. Students can choose to do a one- or two-year distinction track based on their needs and goals. In addition, students can participate in a co-hort with a specific area of focus. Current co-hort offerings include Aviation, I Am First (first generation students), Tech Management, Trailblazer (non-traditional students), and LEAD (on campus student leader).
The Cultural Competency Workshops are a series designed to introduce faculty, staff, and administrators to topics cultural competency. There are three sets of workshops organized into Positionality, Intersectionality, and Relationality modules. The workshops follow an Awareness-Understanding-Skill Development model.
Advancing the scholarship and practice of effective teaching and learning. As partners, we advocate and support:
The Innovation Academy facilitates accessible experiences through academic and high impact programs across the University and larger community.
Employee resource groups (ERGs) provide a forum for employees to meet, support each other, and build a sense of belonging for staff and faculty. The shared goal of ERGs is to promote a culture of respect, inclusion, kindness, and purpose at UVU.
Participation in these groups is entirely voluntary and is employee-led groups. These groups are centered around interests, backgrounds, identities, experiences, and common bonds. Through participation in ERGs, UVU staff and faculty will help foster a positive campus climate by dynamically contributing to UVU’s mission and values. The shared goal of ERGs is to provide a culture of respect, inclusion, kindness, and purpose.
These groups will also support UVU’s efforts in recruiting and retention of those within the UVU community from all different backgrounds and the goal of these groups is to meet the needs of members.
More templates and forms to form and manage an ERG will be shared via IEE website.
The Cultural Competency Workshops are a series designed to introduce faculty, staff, and administrators to topics cultural competency. There are three sets of workshops organized into Positionality, Intersectionality, and Relationality modules. The workshops follow an Awareness-Understanding-Skill Development model.
The Equity and Title IX office is dedicated to promoting UVU’s mission of educating every student by providing exception care, exceptional accountability, and exceptional results. We are committed to fostering a welcoming culture of respect by providing equal opportunities through proactive outreach, training, recruitment, and education.
The University is dedicated to the highest standards of ethical conduct. As such, the University encourages employees to call unethical behavior to the attention of the appropriate supervisor, university auditor, other responsible university officers, or report the concern through EthicsPoint.
UVU Leadership Exploration And Development (UVULEAD) is a new and exciting program aimed at providing supervisors the knowledge and skills needed to succeed as leaders of UVU. The program is founded on the new Supervisor Competencies and is part of the Leadership Competency Experience (LCE).
LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps you discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos.\nWith more than 5,000 courses and personalized recommendations, you can discover, complete, and track courses related to your field and interests. You can also choose to add these courses and related skills to your LinkedIn profile once you've completed them.
PACE helps its members by providing a unified voice to the administration in all areas that involve PACE members. Examples of such areas include compensation, benefits, leave, working conditions, hiring procedures, Summer University, staff grievances, performance evaluations, UVU policies and procedures, etc. PACE also sponsors programs and activities to promote employee recognition, professional development, and social interaction.
