The Office of Career, Academic & Service Experience (CASE) was created to integrate three outstanding student service departments: the Academic Exploration program (AEP), Career Services and Learn & Serve Niagara.
The goal of CASE is to provide a welcoming campus environment as we work in collaboration with faculty, staff and students. Our knowledgeable professionals strive to assist students in discovering and building self-awareness and help them to find their individual passions.
It is our belief that providing professional and service opportunities that encourage students to reflect on their Vincentian values is imperative as students participate in active, integrative learning.
The Academic Exploration Program (AEP) helps students identify their interests, abilities, and values to make an educated and confident major selection. AEP has been recognized by the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) with an Outstanding Institutional Advising Award and the Outstanding Advising Administrator Award. AEP strives to provide the most innovative and best advisement for students and consequently attracts 15-20 percent of the incoming freshman class each fall. Advisors in AEP provide a supportive environment that encourages student academic success and aids in the transition to college life.
Niagara University’s Office of Career Services is driven by a mission of providing students and alumni with the best possible assistance in developing and achieving their career objectives, as they work toward the goal of obtaining lifelong career satisfaction.
Career satisfaction is a process. Students are encouraged to proactively plan for their futures and work with the Career Services staff throughout their time at Niagara. The Office of Career Services prides itself on being able to integrate current technology with personal contact, enabling students and alumni to build the skills and relationships they need to successfully compete in an ever-changing world.
The Niagara University experience embodies the altruistic spirit of St. Vincent de Paul. As declared in its mission statement, the university “...seeks to instill in its students a deep concern for the rights and dignity of the human person, especially for the poor, the suffering, the handicapped, and the outcast. It expects that the same concerns will inspire and motivate faculty and staff in the educative process.”
Niagara University’s service learning program, which combines community outreach with credit coursework, has been named one of the nation's top programs of its kind by U.S. News & World Report and chosen for the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service to the community four different times.
