Roompact's "Res Life Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can utilize in your residence life and education practice. Take a look through our past quick tips. Love being an RA? Maybe you'd like to consider working within housing and residence life as a career choice. Before you take that leap, consider these three... Continue Reading →
What is a “good” Roommate Agreement completion rate for residence life departments?
One of Roompact's most used software features is the ability to design and deploy Roommate and Suitemate Agreements to residents. Roommate agreements are documents that help facilitate a conversation with a roommate grouping to help them share expectations of living together. Good agreements allow residents to think about potential areas of conflict and how those... Continue Reading →
3 Res Life Quick Tips for Intentional Conversation Assessment
Roompact's "Res Life Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can utilize in your residence life and education practice. Take a look through our past quick tips. Many departments utilize intentional conversations as an educational strategy. Intentional conversations are, as their name suggests, touch points between a resident and a peer leader that are... Continue Reading →
Becoming a B-Corp: Paying an ACUHO-I Intern A Living Wage
Roompact is engaging in a concerted effort to become a Certified B-Corp. As we explore becoming certified as a B-Corp, we will be sharing some of our experiences, thoughts, and ideas right here on our blog. By practicing transparency ourselves, we hope you will hold us accountable. We also hope that by sharing our own... Continue Reading →
3 Res Life Quick Tips for Seeking a Job Outside of the Field
Roompact's "Res Life Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can utilize in your residence life and education practice. Take a look through our past quick tips. Entry level positions in residence life are plentiful. Upper level positions are not. As professionals progress in the field, many will need to look at positions outside... Continue Reading →
🦠Sample Questions You Can Use In Your Roommate Agreements During COVID-19
Many colleges and universities across higher education use Roompact to facilitate their roommate and suitemate agreement process. Roompact Agreements includes customizable templates, the automatic distribution of agreements to specific resident groups, and agreement records that can be accessed and revised by both staff and students alike. Many institutions will customize their agreement templates in Roompact's... Continue Reading →
3 Res Life Quick Tips for Gaining RA Buy-In for a Residential Curriculum
Roompact's "Res Life Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can utilize in your residence life and education practice. Take a look through our past quick tips. Transitioning to a curricular approach represents a cultural shift. A department can have well-articulated goals, outcomes, and educational plans, but a residential curriculum will never be successful... Continue Reading →
🦠ResLife & Corona Episode 7: Real-Time Assessment Informing Real-Time Adjustments to Your Practice
In episode 7 of Roompact's series on residence life and education during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Paul Brown discusses the importance of real-time assessment. Although always a useful exercise, it becomes increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being able to get information back quickly to inform daily decisions can allow you to adapt more quickly... Continue Reading →
Curricular Approach Q&A: Where Can I Find Peer Institutions To Collaborate With And Benchmark?
Whether you're just starting your journey towards a curricular approach or whether you're looking to improve your current practice, connecting with peer institutions for idea generation, collaboration, and benchmarking can be incredible useful and there are a number of different avenues available to you. One of the easiest places to begin connecting is by attending... Continue Reading →