Office of the Dean of Student Affairs and Services

VISION

The Office of the Dean of Student Affairs and Services is envisioned to be a pro-active, responsive and youth-friendly office committed to the total formation of the Marian students.

MISSION

The office provides integral and holistic programs / projects and services designed to assist every student attain maximum self-realization guided by the Core Values of the Marian Culture: Excellence, Innovation, Communion and Christ’s Mission.

OBJECTIVES

The Office of the Student Affairs and Services is directly responsible for the coordination and development of the non-academic areas of student-life. It plans, implements, and evaluates programs, projects, services designed to assist every student attain maximum self-realization and become excellent, innovative person in constant communion with others imbued with the passion for Christ’s mission.

HISTORY/OFFICE DESCRIPTION

School years 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 were school years affected much by the COVID19 virus outbreak. The last few months of SY 2019-2020, starting in March of 2020, were the beginning of a national lockdown where travel is restricted to avoid the spread of the virus and, at the same time, avoid being infected with the virus. Students had to stay home, school campuses were closed and schools had to go online to conduct classes. Student services also have to adapt to the online delivery of student services. CHED has mandated all schools to develop alternative means of delivering student services. The Guidance and medical services and practically all student services were made online. The Sports and Cultural affairs were suspended for 2020-2022. Only in SY 2022-2023, when there were more relaxed guidelines on community quarantine and basic protocols like wearing face masks, were sports and cultural activities allowed. The university participated in the 2023 CEAP Sports and Cultural Meet in Baggao, Cagayan, where the university was the champion in several events. There are still tasks to be done and challenges ahead to be overcome. Still, nothing is impossible if the ODSAS as a unit and the university as a whole work together to achieve our Vision-Mission and Objectives. In 2024, SMU won the overall CEAP Sports and Cultural event championship, which it hosted on April 4-7, 2024 after participating in the 2023-2024 CICM Schools Friendship Meet in Baguio City. The office also was given an additional staff in the person of Miss Laarni Marantal.

SERVICES OFFERED

The services administered and monitored by the ODSAS are the following:

  1. Discipline and Guidance and Counseling services through the ADSAS Men and Women as well as the Guidance and Testing Office;
  2. Sports and Development programs through the Sports and Development Office;
  3. Cultural and Arts programs through the Cultural Affairs Office;
  4. Health Services through the medical-dental clinic;
  5. Housing Services through the Men’s and Ladies’ Dormitories;
  6. Food services through the university canteens;
  7. Publication services through the university organ, The Marian; and
  8. Financial Assistance to students through the different financial loan programs.

Contact Person/Details

Mr. Samuel B. Damayon

Dean, Student Affairs and Services
dsas@smu.edu.ph
0929 375 3371
(078) 392 8104