Student Life
Dean of Students
The Student Enrichment Fund
One of the things that makes Pepperdine such a special place is the personal attention students receive from our faculty and staff. We're pleased to offer a couple of programs that provide you with resources to share a meal with a Seaver student in one of our dining facilities or with a group of students in your home. Below you will find information about our "Dine with a Student" and "Student Home Entertainment" programs.
Student Home Entertainment
The purpose of this program is to encourage faculty and staff to entertain students in their homes for a social meal. To assist in budgeting and utilizing the funds, the following guidelines have been established:
1. The fund is available to full-time and adjunct faculty and full-time University employees.
2. The intent of the fund is for faculty/staff to entertain students in their homes and promote a sense of community. The spirit of the fund lends itself best to an evening or afternoon shared with a small number of students (25 or less) in a home. A restaurant setting is not considered appropriate for this fund. A reception with more than 25 students is more appropriately a division or department expense. The home event should be social in nature and not simply the relocation of a regularly scheduled class or activity.
3. Individuals will be reimbursed for actual food expenditures with a maximum of $8 per student in attendance. Reimbursement is based on the number of students in attendance, not faculty families and guests.
4. Since funding for the program is limited, the maximum amount that participants can be reimbursed per event is $200.
5. Faculty/staff are eligible to request reimbursement three times a semester.
6. Following the event, the faculty/staff member should submit a memorandum to Michelle McMahon in the Dean of Student Affairs Office. This notification should include the location, the expense (attach all appropriate itemized receipts), and a list of students in attendance, preferably a sign-up sheet obtained at the event. This memorandum MUST be submitted within ten (10) working days of the event. Requests that fail to meet this deadline may not be honored.
Dine with a Student
The Dine with a Student program provides a free meal at the Waves Café or Oasis to any Seaver faculty or staff member who dines with a Seaver student. The faculty/staff meal card has a maximum value of $15. It can be used one time, and the cashier will collect the card. The card must be used while dining at the Waves Café or Oasis one-on-one with a student. The card is designed to be used for the faculty/staff member's meal, since most students have their own meal cards. However, if you eat with a student who is not on the meal plan, you may use the card for both of your meals.
To avoid conflict with the Faculty Lounge lunch program, faculty members are encouraged not to use the meal card on Tuesday or Thursday at lunch. It may be used at any other times the Waves Café or Oasis is open.
Any full-time Seaver faculty/staff member may participate in this program once per week. On the day you schedule the meal with a student, you can sign out one of the meal cards at the reception desk in the Dean of Student Affairs Office (Tyler Campus Center, Suite 210). You'll be asked to sign out the card with your name and the name of the student you are hosting. This program cannot be used with student spouses.
If you have any questions about either program, please call the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs at 506-4472.
