Student Support Services

Student Services creates purposeful experiences for students that promote leadership, life skills, and personal development while enhancing campus life. Student Services department collaborates with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members to provide innovative and intentional programs, services, and activities.

New Student Orientation

New Student Orientations are held for all new and transfer students entering CMI in the Fall, Spring and Summer. The NSO Program includes insightful and helpful advice from current students, the opportunity to interact with an NSO Leader, tour campus, attend priority registration, and network with other students new to CMI.

Fitness Center

The Fitness Center provides students, CMI staff and faculty a facility to work out and stay fit. It offers an outlet for health, recreational equipment and healthy activities to provide the CMI community with general well-being and social development. It is open from 8 am – 8 pm Monday through Friday. For more information see https://www.cmi.edu/fitness-center/

Residential Life

The Residential Life Program mission is to provide for a conducive, safe, and collegial learning environment and promote academic success, cultural awareness, and life skills to residents. The Residence Halls are designed to be residences in which students can study, mature, and acquire lasting friendship. The diversity of people, values, and lifestyles establishes a positive environment in which residents further their educational development. More information about the residence halls can be found at https://www.cmi.edu/residence-hall/

Health Center

Basic health services are available to the College community at both our Uliga and Arrak campuses. Our Health Center is managed by a full time registered nurse and an assistant nurse. The nurse is on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to our students living in the Residence Halls, services are available every day to the rest of the community from Monday to Friday, 8 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 5pm.

CMI students who are RMI citizens are automatically covered under the RMI Basic Health Care Plan at the Majuro Hospital. Students from Palau, CNMI, FSM, Guam and the United States will be required to pay a $20 doctor’s fee for every hospital visit for their first year, every year after that will be at $5.00 per visit.

Available services include: over-the-counter medications, prescription refill, influenza vaccinations, limited laboratory tests including pregnancy and blood sugar level, sexual health care, and screening for health issues such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. For more information visit https://www.cmi.edu/health-services/

Student Body Association

The Student Body Association represents student interests on CMI standing committees and organizes student events on campus. Officer elections are held annually. For more information, contact Meyar Mamis, Associate Dean of Equity and Engagement, at mmamis@cmi.edu.

Counseling

CMI’s Counseling Department advises CMI students regarding problems with academic performance, attendance, attitude and adjustments.

Counselors provide individual and group counseling for different issues related to academic failure, substance abuse, suicide prevention, personal esteem, peer relationship, decision making, and family issues.

The mission of the Counseling Department is to foster an environment of support that enhances students’ academic, personal and professional growth as we strive to:

  • promote and support areas in the academic field;
  • promote and support areas in the personal life;
  • promote and support areas in the career field.

The department helps students make good choices and become aware of relationship between education and their future. In regard to social interaction, the student will develop an awareness and responsibilities necessary for accepting social relationship within the school, home, and the community. Students will become aware of his/her ways of learning, abilities, and values to strive for possible career and personal goals. Students will learn to change behaviors to healthy ones not only in academically but also in personal, social, and mental wellbeing.

For more information or to set up an appointment, contact Demiana Kumoru, Director of Counseling at dkumoru@cmi.edu.

TRACC

The purpose of the Tilmaake Resources and Career Center (TRACC), is to assist students and adults in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable a successful transition from school to work. TRACC offers a broad range of career services that empower students to explore, define, and realize their career goals. Some of the services offered are:

  • Career & transfer counseling
  • Standardized testing preparation
  • Internship opportunities
  • College transfer assistance to students
  • Scholarship inquiries
  • Career planning workshops and activities

Our goal is to provide lifetime tools and skills for academic achievement, educational exploration, professional development, job search success, and career satisfaction.

TRACC is also the RMI Advising Center for Education USA. Education USA is supported by the U.S. Department of State which actively promotes U.S. Education by offering students from around the world accurate, comprehensive, and objective information about educational opportunities in the United States. We have resources from around the globe and are able to support pursuits worldwide. The Education USA center is located in the Career and Transfer Center at CMI and provides free information to people interested in studying in the U.S. Students, teachers, parents and community members are welcomed to make an appointment or stop by to meet with an adviser.

Peer to Peer Education Program (P2P)

The program provides wellness screening on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs and also provides outreach events to increase awareness of issues relevant to healthy campus lifestyle. This includes:

  • presentations on substance abuse and other related issues that students are struggling with such as teen pregnancy, sex education, healthy relationship and Time management etc.
  • media campaigns for healthy behaviors and lifestyles
  • educational plays, skits and dramas during welcome and farewell parties for students
  • drug-free activities such as movie nights and retreats
  • support groups for at risk students on alcohol and drugs misuse
  • basic counseling in groups and individually to students