The office of the Executive Director provides a full range of support services to the entire University of Free State student population, working in collaboration with various university stakeholders to ensure a memorable student experience while students are studying at the University of Free State. The Division of Student Affairs is providing this service through various departments that constitute student affairs, namely Centre for Universal Access Access and Disability (CUADS); Housing and Residential Affairs; KovsieSport; Kovsie Health and Wellness; Student Life (Active Civic Teaching; Arts, culture and Dialogues; Gate Way 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 favorably 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 continue to create a humanizing environment for our students, premised on DSA’s key strategic focus areas:
· Student Success
· Student Health and Wellness
· Student Experience; and
· Student Development
Division of Student Affairs Directorate collectively commit to deliver efficient services to the students at the University of Free State to ensure the realization of these key focus areas.
Executive Director
Temba Hlasho