The office of the Executive Director provides a full range of support services to the entire University of the Free State student population, working in collaboration with various university stakeholders to ensure a memorable student experience.  The Division of Student Affairs (DSA) provides this service through various departments that constitute student affairs, namely the Centre for Universal Access and Disability (CUADS); Housing and Residential Affairs; KovsieSport; Kovsie Health and Wellness; Student Life (Active Civic Teaching; Arts, Culture and Dialogues; Gateway First Year Orientation; Food Environment; Leadership Development; Peer Mentor Programme; Student Media; Research and Co-Curricular); Social Support Services; Student Governance; and Student Counselling and Development.

The Executive Director provides strategic direction to ensure that issues of accommodation, health and wellness, diversity, student governance, sport and recreation, universal access, social justice, and quality of student leadership are favourably managed and monitored.

Our delivery sites are situated on all three campuses to ensure alignment of service provision by DSA on all three campuses.  In delivering these services, we create a humanising environment for our students, premised on DSA’s key strategic focus areas:

·      Student Success
·      Student Health and Wellness
·      Student Experience; and
·      Student Development

The Division of Student Affairs Directorate collectively commits to deliver efficient services to students at the University of the Free State, to ensure the realisation of these key focus areas.