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Additional Campus Services

Seneca has many services and organizations in place to help you succeed and be safe on campus. Here are some of those services.

Transition and Orientation Programs

Seneca offer’s various transition and orientation programs to help students familiarize themselves with the campus and supports. These can be great programs to meet staff, faculty and other students that you will be working with and learning from throughout your degree.  From International Virtual Orientation, pre-arrival mentoring for international students, Virtual Orientation, and Campus Welcome Days, and Program Orientation these orientation programs provide you the opportunity to meet campus resources, ask questions In addition, Accessible Learning Services offers a transition program for new students with disabilities through a workshop called Ready…Set…Success! (RSS). RSS is a series of interactive sessions designed to help students with disabilities or accessibility needs develop and refine successful learning skills and habits.

Please see Seneca’s Orientation website and the RSS website for more information.

ASD Supports

Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often encounter a distinctive array of challenges during their post secondary education journey. Some of these challenges can include difficulties in communication, navigating social dynamics, managing unpredictable schedules, etc. Seneca’s Accessible Learning Services department offers various programs to help support students with ASD and more information can be found at the following ASD Supports website.

Health Services

Seneca has several supports in place to manage your mental, physical, and sexual health. There are numerous ways you can access health care as a post-secondary student depending on your specific needs.

• Physical health: Urgent care clinics, physician and nursing services, dental services, first aid
• Mental health: Counselling/therapy services, peer support services, academic accommodations for mental health concerns, crisis support
• Sexual health: STD/STI testing clinics, birth control and emergency contraceptives, sexual assault support, sexual health resource centres

Please see Seneca’s Medical Centre website,  Counselling Services website and Accessible Learning Services websites for more information.

Athletics and Recreation

Seneca has athletics and recreation programs, including varsity sports, intramurals, extramurals and gym and fitness facilities. These services can provide a place for students to enhance their wellbeing through sports, hobbies and physical fitness.

Please see Seneca’s Athletic and Recreation website for more information.

Student Services – Housing Supports

We have on-campus residences as well as options for off-campus housing.

Seneca provides support to students with on- and off- campus housing. On campus housing services include applications for student residences, navigating deadlines and requests for accommodations, purchasing a meal plan, and more. Off campus housing services can include in-person and virtual one-on-one support, sharing resources and providing educational workshop on housing and accommodations, and tenant-landlord laws and legal support. Please see Seneca’s Student Housing website for more information.

Please see Seneca’s Student Housing website for more information.

Seneca Works

Seneca career support hub is the central provider of career education and employment support services for undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni from all disciplines. Seneca Works offer a comprehensive range of accessible services to support and empower students in making informed decisions about their career, further education and employment goals. Some of the specific supports, programs and services offered to you through Seneca Works are practical and relevant career /further post-secondary events, workshops, job listings, career counselling, drop-in career advising, and resources. They also partner with organizations hoping to recruit excellent employees, interns or graduate/doctoral students.

Please see Seneca’s Career Support website for more information.

IT Services

Seneca’s IT services are a team of technical experts that assist students with technology-related matters. They can be phoned, emailed, or visited on campus, and offer assistance with:

• Dorm-room tech issues
• Setting up tech equipment
• Cyber-security resources
• Guides and tutorials for online platforms commonly used in the academic environment (Zoom; Blackboard; Teams; school email service…)
• Audio and visual multimedia support

Please see Seneca’s Information Technology Services website for more information.

Campus Security

Seneca’s campus security team is equipped to respond to and alleviate a variety of safety concerns. They can be phoned, emailed, or visited on campus to assist with situations including:

• Missing persons
• First aid Fire/gas/biohazards
• Lost and found
• Violence/crime on campus
• Bomb threats
• Disasters Safety tips and procedures
• Policies (weapons; violence; etc.)

Please see Seneca’s Security and Emergency Management Services website for more information.

Safety Programs

Safe walk programs are designed to provide accompaniment for any student, faculty, or staff member travelling between on-campus or off-campus facilities. These programs will usually have a phone # that you can call and you will be asked where someone can meet you. A member of program staff will proceed to meet you at your given location and walk you to wherever you need to go within a limited radius. These programs are especially useful for any student who would benefit from or feel more comfortable being accompanied in and around the campus community in the darker hours of a day.

The blue lights in and around your campus are used to easily locate and identify emergency telephones.

Please see Seneca’s Security and Emergency Management Services website for more information as well as the Seneca SAFE website for more details.