USC Lancaster supports the intellectual, personal, physical, and social development of students in recognition of the critical interdependency of each of these areas to student success. By providing opportunities for productive interaction with students, faculty, and staff, USC Lancaster helps students develop a spirit of curiosity, integrity, and confidence in planning and pursuing academic, career and personal goals. Students are assisted with enhancing their skills in planning and pursuing academic goal, personal goals, and career planning. Students are assisted with developing social skills, including the ability to work with and relate to others and to appreciate others of diverse backgrounds. Students are assisted with reducing educational stress and levels of academic difficulty.
Students increase their participation in student and cultural activities.
This information is analyzed to determine the kinds of services to which students are receptive and to recommend areas the campus should address to increase students' potential for success. The Counseling Center provides usage data. All reports are utilized to plan the campus's responses to student development needs. College Student Inventory results are shared with staff and faculty responsible for orientation, recruitment and retention, with University 101 faculty, with Opportunity Scholars Program staff, and provided to the individual student. Results of the CSI are used to plan the curricular and extra-curricular support systems and activities of the campus to encourage student development and student success.