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What is the Office of Student Enrichment?

Born from the heart of the University's mission to care for the whole person, the Office of Student Enrichment is designed to ensure all students have the opportunity to flourish at Notre Dame. The OSE, therefore, offers programming and resources to first-generation and/or lower-income (FGLI) members of the Notre Dame community. Creating additional settings for students, faculty, and staff to have conversations about the unique circumstances these students face, the OSE helps the entire community thrive and become the people God dreams for us to be. At the OSE, we strive to serve all students because of our shared human dignity, whatever their background or unique condition.

Mission

To improve the Notre Dame student experience of lower-income and first-generation college students through informing, including, and investing in developmental programming and financial access.

Vision

To promote an environment of inclusivity for FGLI students to empower them to thrive within the Notre Dame community.

Our Motto: Inform. Include. Invest

Inform:

Make sure the entire Notre Dame Community understands the issues and challenges our high-achieving/lower-income students face as they attend Notre Dame.

Include:

Invite all students to join our programs, lectures, and discussions and assist as many students as possible to feel welcome and to make Notre Dame their home.

Invest:

Provide benefits to students who qualify financially to allow them to have their own Notre Dame experience and to become the well-rounded Notre Dame alumni we invited them here to become.