Community Advisor

As a resident assistant, I upheld and am continuing to uphold University Housing’s mission of ensuring affordable, comfortable, secure housing on campus while promoting the academic success and personal growth of the residents. From crisis management to programming for the community, my responsibilities varied to be an enforcer of the policies but also to be a friend to all. I built quality relationships with each of my residents to establish an authentic community among the diverse population. Whether it was simply helping

When a student chooses to dorm, they are forced into independency. They have more responsibilities, but they also have more freedom. Dormers are responsible for meals, laundry, money, and their well-being. In contrast, students that commute do not have to worry themselves with these responsibilities. With the parental aid, they always have a safety net to fall back on. However, living with parents often means living by their rules.

The focus of this paper is to dispel a common view that community colleges do not provide on-campus housing and to provide greater insights into the types of community colleges that provide on-campus housing, the typical student who resides in on-campus housing, a guide to various California community colleges that provide on-campus housing, and the impact that on-campus housing has on student learning outcomes, financial gains for community colleges that provide on-campus housing, and an overview of the lack of data in the area of not only on-campus housing in community colleges, but community colleges at large. According to Cohen and Brawer (2008) access to student housing is one of the fundamental dissimilarities between public

I want to be a resident advisor for many reasons. Some of these reasons include the inclination to help new students become familiar, comfortable, and happy in their new living environments. I have many qualities that make me suitable for a resident advisor position. I also understand the importance that programming and leadership has when living with new students.

Colleges have always encouraged their students to live on campus, especially freshman. This is for the reason that living on campus allows student to encounter new cultures, participate in organizations, and reach academic heights. For example, Tarleton State University states that “Living on campus will enable [the student] to interact with diverse people enriching [their] educational experience and will provide convenient access to professors and academic resources the campus offers. In addition, on-campus students are more likely to become and stay involved in clubs and organizations” (Tarleton State University, 2016). Along with the notion that students residing on campus are likely to reach academic heights, a study conducted at the University of North Dakota during the fall semester of 1966-1967

As a SUNY Oneonta Resident Community Advisor, you play an important role within the Residential Community Life Department. The RCA role will specifically work with students’ living within First year Experience and Transfer Living Communities. This role provides on-call duty coverage for his/she’s assigned community, while also completing some evening office hours to connect with residents. Instead of building community among a floor, the RCA position focuses on fostering and building community on a building-wide level. RCAs will build a strong partnership with the New Student Services (NSS) staff to assist students within their transition. This positions provides some intentional programming to better prepare students’ for the next step, whether

Students are required to live in on-campus residence halls until they reach the age of 20. There are five halls in total, and while they are co-ed, each floor is dedicated to a specific gender. There are often private rooms available for students who don't wish to have roommates. There are also a couple of apartment-style buildings where older students can live on-campus. While there are no fraternities or sororities at the college, many residence halls have unique activities they engage in, leading to fun and bonding between the students of the halls, similar to Greek

Intro- As I graduated high school, I always had the desire to up my career. So, my next step is to go to college. A week later, I started to think how am I going to live on my own? Where will I stay at, for my existing 4 years or maybe years? So, I did my research on the Kansas State University housing homepage. As I am looking through my options, I was interested in the Kramer complex’s. My mom told me is it safe, healthy, and in good living conditions to live there? When I kept scrolling down it showed how it will have safety and good health conditions throughout the complex. According to the Kansas State University housing and dining home page, “020 Forming a Committee, Every College must have an active safety committee. This must be a goal of each Dean. If the Dean desires, departments within a College may also have safety committees. The University Environmental Health & Safety Committee recommends that large departments or departments with high hazards have a safety committee.”. By me reading this, I had very high expectations for having very healthy environment within the housing departments. When I made a decision to choose as students Kansas State students feels weird and uncomfortable living away from home and have no choice to live on campus, students have to rely on K-States promise for students live safe and healthy regulated housing for the amount for money you payed for. Goodnow Hall. Goodnow is a coeducational hall located in the Kramer Community on the west

Residence Life has implemented 15 residential learning communities such as the Engineering Community, Global Village, and Substance Free Community. Each of these communities were developed to help students explore future careers and majors, bond with others who have similar interests, and succeed in a safe and environment (Residential Learning Communities). The front desks within each residence hall are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This provides maximum convenience for residents to receive a keys, print anytime of day, and have questions answered. Another innovative thing within Residence Life is program and event planning for residents. In each hall on campus thousands of dollars of funding goes toward putting on programs for residents to get involved and learn something new.

College is a life changing experience for students. College is a new environment for most students and comes with lots of challenges. Things such as the increased difficulty of academic work and not being around the same social groups as a student was before college can make the transition very difficult. One of the best things a student can do to help with this transition is to live in a campus residence hall. Students should live in dorms because of the community that this creates. Students will gain many beneficial social interactions, will be able to better complete academic work, and will ease the adjustment to college life.

Residential Life is location in Grace King Hall. This department is responsible for on campus living that is offered at LSU. Residential Life’s role at LSU is to provide students with life on campus that meet all of their needs—from academic success to a safe environment. Students who wish to live on campus must contact this office. The services Residential Life offers are applying for housing, roommate requests, expenses, tours, help with moving in, and information on what to expect as well as what is required from living on campus. This office is also responsible for safety living on campus, which means they make sure all housing is well lit, has security, has safety equipment for fires, has peep holes in doors, as well as ways residents

CCU students experience a residential community that is engaged both on campus and around the world. There are dozens of intellectual and spiritual opportunities for students to grow.

Higher education quite often means moving to another city. Which brings a very reasonable question on accommodation. While a lot of housing options are available nowadays, here we will talk about the most typical for students one – college or university dormitory, which is usually a building situated on a school campus where students can live for the period of their studies. Many educational establishments call their "dormitories" “residence halls”, though “dorm” is very widely used as well and have no negative connotation.

There are numerous benefits of the Jesmond student houses, particularly your first-year attendance at the college. There are moreover lots of social and academic advantages of these living situations. Students that stay right on campus within student housing, contain superior graduations rates as compare to their fellow classmates that live off campus or at home.

By listening to how the student spoke and discussed what led him into the situation he was in during this case proceeding, it was apparent that the sanction given to him during the last academic year had a significant effect on his college experience this semester. The issues the student brought up as to how his experience has changed since receiving this sanction barring him from the residence halls on weekends resonated with Schlossberg’s Transition Theory, which discusses how certain events can have a significant effect on relationships, routines, and roles. For instance, because the student could not be in the residence halls on weekends it was difficult for him to spend time with his college friends and girlfriend who all live on-campus. In addition, given the fact that his friends