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ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL AIDEnrollment and Retention Management (Admissions, TransferOffice, International Admissions, Enrollment Operations, andOffice of Financial Aid and Scholarship Services)The Offices of Enrollment and Retention Managementseek to provide counseling and information to prospectiveand current students to enable them to successfullynavigate their tenure at Stony Brook through to graduation.Our measures of student success include improving metricsrelated to admission, progression, retention, and graduationrates. We also seek to ensure students have meaningfulexperiences through our participation in Student LearningOutcomes and our use of continual program assessmentand improvement.Our goal is to provide research-based, data-driven, accurate,and consistent information designed to ease the transitionfrom high school or community college to our Universitycommunity. We strive to ensure that prospective and currentstudents understand the features, benefits, outcomes, andexpectations of, and for, a Stony Brook University educationand the student experience. From our Admissions Office,which is tasked with recruiting, admitting, and enrolling awell-qualified group of students from New York State, theUnited States, and around the world, we seek to ensure studentrepresentation from economic, geographic, and culturallydiverse backgrounds. Additionally, we strive to provideaccess to a world-class, research-based, higher education forall qualified students through our work with community collegesand transfer mobility.Our Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Services seeks toutilize federal, state, local, and institutional resources toease the financial burden on students and maintain accessto those from all economic backgrounds, especially thosewho face significant economic challenges. Our goal is to doso with the highest level of professional student serviceguided and informed by best practices. We also seek toensure students understand and take ownership of their roleas a financial aid recipient and in the process become morefinancially literate. We do so guided by a rubric of servicethat adheres to all federal, state, and institutional guidelinesand regulations for the use of financial aid.Finally, all of our areas strive to use continuous process improvementto ensure the highest level of service is provided,informed, and supported by secure efficient technologyinfrastructures and green practices wherever possible.STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY • STUDENT AFFAIRS AND ENROLLMENT AND RETENTION MANAGEMENT 2009-2010 49