Objectives

• To serve as a vehicle for its affiliates to collaborate and professionally serve students in the Higher Education and Further Education and Training (FET) sector;

• To ensure a coherent approach for engagement with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), Higher Education Institutions (HEI), FET sector and other relevant interested role-players on behalf of affiliates;

• To support, encourage and contribute to the mission and vision of affiliates;
  To provide a united “voice”, and present the aspirations and concerns of HEI and the FET sector;

• To promote networking opportunities among members, affiliates and non-members at the various institutions/colleges of learning in order to create a channel for the regular exchange of ideas, techniques and methods related to improving the services within students affairs;

• To professionalize student affairs departments in Southern African institutions of higher learning and the FET sector;

• To encourage and assist members and non-members making student affairs a career choice;

• To promote the role of members as professional providers of co-curricular and supportive education within a living and learning context of higher education institutions and the FET sector;

• To promote liaison between members and persons/bodies in related positions at regional, national and international institutions;

• To investigate and report on matters which are relevant to the field of activities of all affiliates;

• To establish relations with other practitioners, associations, unions and student organizations;

• To facilitate and advise on transformation of institutions of higher learning and the FET sector;

• To assist Southern African institutions of higher learning and the FET sector to increase research and development within student affairs departments;

• To develop and implement a leadership development programme for Student Affairs and Services Professionals;

• To develop best practices utilized in FET colleges and universities in Southern Africa and abroad;

• To develop partnerships with key stakeholders;

• Inspire and empower professionals to make a difference in the lives of students;
• To mobilize resources to support the profession;

• To build capacity to create knowledge and use data to provide evidence that will support excellence in practice;

• To strengthen Student Affairs in Southern Africa by making the profession more responsible, vital and sustainable.