Message from the Dean of Students

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A Message from Dean of Students Greg Stone

Student Life is committed to providing opportunities that support and enhance students' academic experience and intentionally creating an environment and modeling behavior that focuses on the holistic development and empowerment of students by creating partnerships for learning; providing opportunities for leadership, citizenship, and services; engaging the community in explorations of differences; responding collaboratively to campus and community issues; cultivating a community of learners; fostering an appreciation of spirit and soul of each student and the College.

The Castleton Way

Important, enduring values reflected in small, everyday actions

Respect

Yourself
Others
The campus, your new home
The planet, our only home

Honor

Live up to the positive values you’ve learned from family, faith, and others.

Act knowing that your reputation, how people view your character and contributions, is your only truly permanent possession.

Kindness

The Golden Rule

Mutual kindness makes everything in a community more pleasant and productive.

Responsibility

The health of our communities, our state, our nation, and society as a whole requires our commitment and involvement.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

And while these values will make you a better person and us a better community, they also become the foundation for your success and leadership in the world beyond Castleton.

Six Steps to Success

(1) Pay Attention. Do not let things go on around you without knowing they are happening and learning about and from them.

(2) Respect yourself; be responsible for your actions. In relationships or when doing things, understand the consequences of your actions and your values, and do the things that are right for you.

(3) Respect and care for others. This is the other half of respecting yourself. The responsibility of living in a community is that we have responsibility for the well being of others, and we are always weighing that responsibility against personal needs.

(4) Find and follow your passions. College is a place where dreams are made and changed. To truly fulfill your potential, you must discover your calling, that area(s) that truly gives you energy. When you find it you will be able to follow the path it leads you on, effortlessly, even if it appears difficult to others.

(5) Be a good citizen. Leave each place better than you found it. This means not just picking up the place or doing no harm. It means that each place you have been is enhanced by you being there. It means that you saw something that needed to be done and you did it, for no other reason than it needed to be done.

(6) Think about how you will be remembered. What will your legacy be? This is about acting in a way and doing things that will demonstrate how you want to matter to the community. This is not always some big event you were involved in, but often could also be the way you were involved in the community that supported and enhanced others' experiences.

You may e-mail me at gregory.stone@castleton.edu.
Phone: 802-468-1249