For Pro Staff For Student Staff Roompact's "Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. Social media can be an excellent platform for student engagement. We wanted to... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for Intentional Conversation Training
For Pro Staff For Student Staff Roompact's "Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. Intentional Conversations are a feature of many residence life and education programs. These... Continue Reading →
What “Froshmores” On Campus Can Teach Us About Resident Engagement
From my perspective at Roompact, I get to work with many different institutions all across the country. One of the unique perspectives this affords me is the ability to more frequently pick up on trends occurring than others may. In particular, I've been hearing that residence life staff have been encountering residents with unique needs... Continue Reading →
Designing Effective Residence Life Student Staff Evaluations
When is the last time you gave your RA or student staff evaluation process a through review? Given the myriad of responsibilities of residence life professionals, staff evaluations can be easy to overlook until the time comes for a formal review. Good residence life departmental practice, however, should involve a continuous annual review of position... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for Starting a Residential Curriculum
For Pro Staff For Student Staff Roompact's "Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. Many schools are transitioning to a residential curriculum or curricular approach to their... Continue Reading →
Roompact Contest 2021 Q4: Blog Writing Competition… “How COVID Has Changed Res Life”
We want to hear from you...How has COVID permanently changed the field of residence life and housing? Want to share your thoughts? Roompact is holding a blog post writing contest! Put your thoughts to paper and you could win a prize. All winners will also receive a personalized caricature of themselves done by our artist.... Continue Reading →
Announcing the 2021 Roompact Door Dec Contest Winners!
Congratulations to all the winners and participants in our third annual Roompact Door Dec Contest! There were so many creative submissions, and the decision was hard, but we’re happy to have new art for the 2021-2022 academic year. Here are our winners... Student Staff Category First PlaceTsuto at University of Colorado Boulder First PlaceEvalynn at... Continue Reading →
Roommate Agreements As A Process NOT A Document
Roommate agreements are a common process that many residence life departments deploy at the beginning of an academic year to help students transition to life with a (new) roommate. Typically a roommate agreement will be a document containing a number of questions that roommates review and complete together. They can include questions about expectations, habits,... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for Handling Roommate Conflict
For Pro Staff For Student Staff Roompact's "Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. An inevitable part of every housing professional's fall is dealing with roommate conflict.... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for New First-Time Hall Directors
For Pro Staff For Student Staff Roompact's "Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. Many student affairs professionals begin their careers working in residence life as a... Continue Reading →
Curricular Approach Q&A: How do upperclass students fit into a curriculum?
A curricular approach is sequenced and scaffolded to follow a student's learning journey through the institution over time. Just as you need to take a 101 course before moving on to a more advanced 201 or 301 course, a co-curriculum follows this same progression. Many institutions that begin developing a curriculum focus on their first... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for Your First Year Working in Housing
For Pro Staff For Student Staff Roompact's "Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. Starting in housing and residence life can be exciting and daunting all at... Continue Reading →
Curricular Approach Q&A: What’s the Difference Between a Facilitation Guide and Lesson Plan?
The short answer is: none. Facilitation guides and lesson plans are two terms used for the same thing. They are the detailed guides that an educator can use to implement a specific strategy. So, for example, if I were going a study skills workshop, the lesson plan or facilitation guide would list the specific outcomes... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for Getting Involved in ACUHO-I
For Pro Staff For Student Staff Roompact's "Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. ACUHO-I is an incredible organization for housing and residence life professionals. Accessible and... Continue Reading →
What Student Conduct Software Solutions Are The Most Commonly Used By Roompact Campuses?
Roompact's software works in combination with your student conduct software to give you a more complete picture of your students and to provide better case management for students of concern. While your student conduct system is often your software of record for students with conduct violations and students of concern, Roompact helps by organizing your... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for Putting Students at the Center of Assessment Efforts
For Pro Staff For Student Staff Roompact's "Quick Tips" series highlights ideas and suggestions you can put into your practice as either a professional staff or student staff member working in residence life and education. Click to read more from the series. Assessment is about improving your practice, but it is ultimately about enhancing the... Continue Reading →
What are the Most Common HMS/SIS Integrations for Roompact Campuses?
Roompact's software works in combination with your housing management software to help you with all aspects of your housing and residence life department. While your housing management system handles the operational aspects of housing, Roompact handles the life and educational happenings within your residence halls. (Think: curriculum, program proposals, intentional conversations, assessment, duty reports, duty... Continue Reading →