Support Services

California Lutheran University provides students with the necessary support services to enhance their educational experience and create an environment which is encouraging, caring and conducive to their success.

Career Services

Career Services at CLU provides an array of individualized services and programs to students and alumni including assistance in choosing a major and career direction, graduate school advising, individualized counseling, workshops, and assistance with securing a jobs or internships. They offer many career assessments and an updated career library to help students and alumni make solid career decisions and use when trying to narrow down career options. In addition, many online web-based resources can be accessed off-site to conduct career and employer research.

Career Services posts all openings through a website which can only be accessed by students and alumni. This site includes an employer database with over 4,000 employer contacts along with your personal and Eprofile which lets the Career Services staff know what your career interests are. Profiles can be completed to activate a targeted email service for related jobs, internships, events and workshops.

Each year Career Services puts on various events including our annual Career Expo and Graduate School Fair. For a list of all services offered visit the Career Services website which is updated each month.

Counseling

Health and Counseling Center

Health and Counseling Services provides individual and group counseling and therapy to help students cope with the full range of human concerns. Professional licensed counselors assist students with developmental issues, loneliness, anxiety, stress, family and roommate conflicts, other relationship problems, issues of sexual anxiety, depression, suicidal feelings, alcohol and drug abuse, and eating disorders.

Marriage, Family and Child Center

The counseling services of the Center are available to individuals of all ages, to couples, and to families. Assistance is provided in a variety of areas including assessment, personal growth, premarital counseling, couple conflict, family problems, family discord, sexual adjustment, substance abuse, separation, divorce, child and adolescent counseling, and personal loss. Fees for counseling services are determined on a graduated basis according to client income. The policy of the Center is to provide relatively low cost services.

The Center functions as a training facility for second-year graduate students and post-master's degree interns in marriage and family counseling. Training is supervised by a licensed psychologist and/or a licensed marriage, family and child counselor. Research in areas of family studies and human development is conducted at the Center. The Center is also a resource for meeting the educational needs of the community and industry in areas such as parenting skills, parent-child relationships, communication skills and personal effectiveness. Staff, counselors and other qualified resource individuals participate in the educational component of the Center.

Pastors

The campus pastors are available for personal and spiritual counseling. Family crises, relationship issues, and vocational questions are among the many issues students may need to address.

Cultural Services

The University recognizes the benefits of exchange between students of various cultures and backgrounds and encourages interaction among its diverse student body. It also recognizes that students of other cultures require services as they adjust to life at the University. These support services are provided by the Multicultural and International Programs Office located in the Student Union Building.

Multicultural and International Programs

The Multicultural and International Programs Office provides support services to foreign students (on student or exchange visitor visas). Services include local transportation assistance for new students to the campus; an international student orientation program; personal, academic, and immigration advisement; cultural events; workshops; advisement to international/multicultural student clubs; and the coordination of a friendship program with American families in the community.

In addition, the office provides programs and services to Latino, African-American, Asian-American and Native American students. Support services include orientation for new students, academic advising, financial aid and scholarship information, personal and career advising. Cultural programs are provided throughout the year to highlight the contributions of people of color.

Other Support Services and Resources

The Writing Center

The Writing Center, in the Pearson Library, helps students develop their writing abilities. Trained composition tutors are available to help students at all stages of the writing process. The staff at the center assists students in focusing, developing and organizing papers, as well as polishing and editing the final draft.

Disabled Student Services

The University's policy is to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and state and local requirements regarding students and applicants with disabilities. Under these laws, no qualified individual with a disability shall, solely by reason of that disability, be denied access to or participation in the services, programs, and activities of the University.

CLU will make reasonable efforts to accommodate students with special needs who self-identify and make it possible for them to participate in University programs. It is the policy of the University that qualified students who have disabilities shall be given auxiliary aids and academic accommodations to ensure access to the University's overall educational program. The University accommodates students with disabilities on an individual basis. Individual students receive reasonable and necessary accommodations based on specific information and assessment data documented by a qualified professional.

Applicants with special needs should discuss their needs for accommodation with the director of the Learning Resources Center.

Health Services

Accident Insurance

A basic accident insurance plan provides limited coverage at no cost for full-time undergraduate students while attending university-sponsored activities on or off campus. Graduate students may elect to pay a fee and become eligible for coverage.

Health Insurance

Graduate students may elect to pay a special fee and participate in a basic health insurance plan available to CLU students. Brochures outlining the benefits of the insurance program are available from the Health Services Office.

Feedback Form