Your Gateway to Campus Life at Webster Geneva
At Webster Geneva, we are here to help you connect with our dynamic and diverse student community. From exciting events to a wide variety of student clubs and associations, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to make the most of your experience on campus.
Our office is also home to the Webster LEADS program, an innovative leadership initiative designed to help you develop and grow both personally and professionally.
As a current student, you’ll have access to campus facilities such as the student lounge, study room and gym — spaces designed to support your academic journey and enhance your campus life. If you’re looking for ways to get involved, stop by our office — we’d be happy to guide you!
Stay informed through the Student Services Newsletter, delivered straight to your Webster email every two weeks. Packed with updates about upcoming events, conferences, workshops, and campus news, it’s your go-to source for staying connected with everything happening at Webster Geneva.
Let us help you make the most of your time here — get involved, explore and thrive!
Meet Our Student Services and Events Manager
Dounia El Jaouhari is here to help and guide students throughout their Webster Geneva experience!
Transcript
[Music]
[Ariel view of Webster Geneva Campus.]
Text on screen: Webster Geneva Campus logo, Staff Highlight, Dounia El Jaouhari, Student Services and Events Manager
[Dounia El Jaouhari sits on chair in the grassy area outside of the Webster Geneva building.]
El Jaouhari: Hi, my name is Dounia El Jaouhari, and I'm the Student Services Manager here at Webster Geneva Campus. I studied in the hospitality management sector and then continued working for about seven or eight years in the luxury hospitality environment in Switzerland and overseas, as well. I was offered an opportunity to work at Webster, but not only that, I saw that there was an opportunity for me to create interactions and experiences that go beyond just a service experience, so I really was able to take on this new challenge, and I was happy to do it.
I started working back in 2022 as an Events Coordinator and then moved up as a Student Services Manager about a year ago. The unit that I share with my colleague, Lucelia, our Events Coordinator, is about events, but we also offer guidance to the Student Government Association, the WHA, which is the Webster Humanitarian Association, and the LEADS program. Part of the activities is that we are organizing a yearly cycle of events, experiences, workshops, academic signature events — liaising with different units such as Academic Affairs, the Alumni unit, Counseling, Career Services, and really create meaningful experiences and events that really cater to students' needs and expectations, for them to make the most of their stay here at Webster.
Text on screen: Why Webster Geneva Campus?
El Jaouhari: Personally, it's such a fulfilling experience and enriching for any student who chooses to come here to Webster Geneva, in the sense that they are also part of a community and a network that they can make the most of with many opportunities inside and outside of classes, as well, so taking part in different events, workshops, and networking opportunities. We are here to create those bridges that allow them to make the most of their stay here at Webster.
Make sure to pass by the Student Services office — it's an open-door policy. We are here to guide and help the students throughout the experience, from orientation up to graduation. So just feel free to stop by. We'd be happy to either chat or answer your questions, as well.
Text on screen: Webster Geneva Campus logo
[Outgoing music]
Student Services Information
The Student Handbook, which includes the extended campus code of conduct can be found on the Webster St. Louis website.
Webster Geneva Campus offers a variety of opportunities designed to help you build a close-knit community on campus and beyond. Explore the many ways of getting involved with different clubs and organizations on campus, expand your leadership skills and enhance your academic and social life at Webster Geneva.
Learn … Evolve … Apply … Develop … Serve … LEADS
In today’s real world, learning about leadership is more important than ever before. We want you to receive the tools necessary to succeed in our global society. We want you to have the right knowledge and the right skills to become leaders.
Mission Statement
Webster LEADS is an on-going application of scholarship and practical leadership experience empowering our diverse student population to develop and excel as global citizens. Through a collaborative process between our students, staff, faculty, and the communities where we live and serve, we prepare our students with the knowledge, education and development to assume leadership on campus, in society and in the global workforce.
We achieve this mission by:
- Recognizing and expanding upon the skills and gifts students possess.
- Creating environments that foster personal reflection, significant relationships, diverse points of view, and student learning.
- Providing opportunities for students to develop and apply their own philosophy and approach to leadership.
- Expecting students to serve as role models and educators within the Webster University community worldwide.
The core components of the program include:
- Leadership Classes.
- Leadership Retreats.
- Professional Development Workshops.
- Service Learning Project.
- Practical Leadership Experience.
Achieving the Leadership Certificate requires completion of a process we call the “5+2 System,” in which participants complete five core areas listed above, and repeat any two of them.
Work Study Scholarship Program
Some accepted practical leadership experience can be gained within the Work Study Scholarship (WSS) program. The WSS program at Webster Geneva Campus was created to:
- Provide scholarship opportunities for students needing financial assistance.
- Provide services Webster University could not otherwise provide without qualified student assistants.
- Serve as many students as possible, with reasonable continuity.
Some of the accepted positions (if carried out by an undergraduate) for Practical Leadership Experience (PLE) within the WSS are:
- Resident assistant
- Graduation ceremony assistant
- Alumni office assistant
Other on-campus accepted positions are:
- Front desk management
- Football captain
- Campus activities coordinator
- Orientation leader
- Student Government president
- NSO student leader
How do I know that I have the potential for this educational challenge?
If you can say “Yes” to the following questions, you are made for Webster LEADS. Come and join this fantastic educational adventure.
- Are you eager to take charge of great projects?
- Do you like to take initiatives?
- Can you see yourself develop as an individual while inspiring others?
- Do you see yourself capable of making a difference to your environment?
- Are you excited about sharing ideas and responsibilities?
- Do you believe in unifying groups of people to achieve something bigger than could ever be achieved individually?
The concept of a leadership program is to develop and enhance various different sets of skills, methodologies and ideas. Leadership programs enlighten various aspects of life and teach important life skills, such as self-analysis, cultural sensitivity, moral awareness, people skills and expertise in decision-making.
Quick Reflection on Service-Learning
A lesson learned from the experience:
“If you have the right mind set, a single week truly can shape a lifetime.”
If I could do it all over again I would …
"continue building relationships with the other volunteers creating lifelong friendships.”
Join Our Explore Series Events
Discover Switzerland With Us!
We travel far and wide, taking in all the sights and sounds that the country has to offer, attending events, making new friends, creating new memories.
Come and join us!
Transcript
[Instrumental upbeat music]
[Text on screen]: Explore series
[Text on screen]: Trip to Montreux
[Event committee instructs students before the trip. Students board the train. Students delightedly take pictures while riding. The view from the driver’s cabin. Students admire the mountains against a clear sky. Students walking down to the observation deck. Students taking photos of themselves. Beautiful view on a sea, valley and mountains.]
[Text on screen]: Mountain Hiking
[A cow grazing peacefully against the background of fir trees and grass. A path leading to a beautiful green valley. Students stepping towards enormous mountain.]
[Text on screen]: Glacier 3000
[Dense green fir forest. Mountain cable car ride to the top. A mountain with a snow-capped peak. Students step a tiny bridge to an observation deck at the top of the mountain. Switzerland’s flag against blue cloudy sky.]
[Text on screen]: Gruyere Trip
[Streets of Swiss town with low-rise buildings and cafes. Brick path leading to the arch. Observation of an a old estate. Students chilling and exploring the estate. Observing valley from estate. The estate, view from the downtown.]
[Text on screen]: Explore Montreux
[The Montreux town against mountain.]
[Text on screen]: Explore Zermatt
[The Zermatt town against snow covered mountains.]
[Text on screen]: Explore Cern
[Cern office.]
[Text on screen]: Explore Mountain Hiking
[Enormous mountains]
[Text on screen]: Explore Gracier 3000
[Metal bridge leading to mountain peak.]
[Text on screen]: Explore Tobogganing park
[People tobogganing.]
[Text on screen]: Explore Gruyeres
[The Gruyere town against mountain and valley.]
[Text on screen]: Explore United Nations
[Office of United Nations]
[Text on screen]: Webster Geneva Campus
Dounia El Jaouhari
Student Services Manager
Phone: +41 22 959 8076
Email: geneva.studentservices@webster.edu
