Residence life and education, residential curriculum and curricular approaches, student housing, and technology.
During ACUHO-I's Residence Education Conference (and the Business Operations, and Housing Facilities Conferences) we'll be holding a social! Date: Tuesday, October 27th, 2026 Time: 5pm-7pm Location: On The ROX The social will have some free adult (and non-adult) beverages and nibbly bites. It's right across the street from the Hyatt Regency, next to the Sheraton.... Continue Reading →
We're excited to join you in Orlando this year near the house of the mouse. Join us for our social... Date: Monday, June 29th, 2025 Our social starts just after the first full day of the ACUHO-I conference, after the regional receptions. Check out the ACUHO-I ACE schedule here. Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm Come any time for... Continue Reading →
Looking for a way to provide deeper, individualized support for your residents? Roompact's new book is a part of a series doing a deep dive into the "Three C" Framework for Residence Life and Education Practice (Community, Competencies, and Care). The initial book provided an overview of the Framework, while this new release does a... Continue Reading →
โ๏ธ Biggest Year Yet? โ๏ธ We're releasing a small avalanche of big new software features including Tasks, and Staffing. Not to mention we've got our first stand-alone users conference this year. Keep reading on. What has Roompact been up to in 2025? Read our annual letter from our founder, Matt Unger, to find out! Read the Letter โฌ๏ธ... Continue Reading →
In an effort to expand our support of schools, we developed the Fellows program. Roompact Fellows act as scholars-in-residence to provide support to Roompact schools. They will be contributing to our blog, podcast, and webinar series throughout the year. They'll also be available and present at our R2 conference! An additional service they will provide... Continue Reading →
Roompact's bulletin board competition is now closed and we're ready to announce the winners. We received over 130 entires (!), so picking ten was incredibly difficult. Some boards did an excellent job at educating residents, while others were just beautiful! We tried to select a diverse group of winners that reflected the diversity of the... Continue Reading →
Picture it, Summertimes. Perhaps youโre overseeing a project that couldnโt get done during the academic year or maybe youโre coordinating summer student housing or working with camps and conferences. Thereโs something about summer though that feels much more relaxed for many of us working in residence life. That is until July creeps up on us... Continue Reading →
In this episode of Roompact's RA*Chat, join Da Zhaneโ Sinclair for advice when everything goes wrong in the middle of the night, and how you respond. This episode dives into the high-pressure reality of on-call life, unpacking how to make quick, confident, and policy-aligned decisions when it matters most for students! From managing emergencies to navigating resident conflict, we explore strategies to stay calm, think clearly, and lead effectively even at 2 AM.
When being hired/re-hired as a live-in student leader, there is one big question that most student leaders think about: โWhere am I going to live?โ First, Iโd like to share my personal experience with this: The first time I applied to be a Community Advisor (CA, often called an RA), it was exciting to apply... Continue Reading →
โIs God real?โ Itโs a question students are already asking themselves, out loud and internally, even if not in those exact words. If you find yourself getting uncomfortable when presented with conversations about God, faith, religion, or belief systems, this blog post is for you. Letโs explore why weโre doing students a disservice by ignoring... Continue Reading →
Among professionals and student staff alike, there are few times as painstaking and perhaps controversial as returning staff training. Generally, responses can come back to โI learned this last year (or the year before),โ โI could be doing other things right now,โ and โthis is too longโ among returning staff. The reality is that annual... Continue Reading →
If youโve ever looked at a training agenda and thought, โWe should probably throw in something interactive here,โ you are in very good company. Residence life has long relied on the hope that if we scatter enough icebreakers and small group discussions throughout trainingโ a name game here, a marshmallow tower there, and sharing fun... Continue Reading →
In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat,ย join our host Noah Montague and guest Pamela Ianiro, Area Coordinator at the University of Cincinnati, as they talk about and explore residence life traditions. From door decs to behind closed doors, Residence Life professionals around the country engage with traditions, but where do these traditions really come from? What was their purpose originally? What is it now?ย How do these traditions guide our work? In this episode, Pamela and Noah explore these traditions and examine the impact the serve now while telling stories and also providing advice for staff looking to learn from and interact with the traditions we all know and (sometimes) love.ย
It's August and all the RAs are creating their door decorations from their floor rosters. Just lists of names with no faces or descriptions to go with them. Like the participants of Love is Blind, they are hopeful they will find people they connect with, sight unseen. The RAs start to imagine what their floors... Continue Reading →
When I served as a hall director โ sometimes even now โ I often would fall prey to working through my lunch hour, scarfing down my lunch while scanning emails, putting the finishing touches on a committee document to guide a process, completing a student of concern report, or meeting with someone โ the list... Continue Reading →
Abstract Residential Education teams create powerful experiences, yet we often struggle to assess and communicate our impact in ways that influence decisions. In a time of tighter budgets and increased scrutiny, showing clear value has become essential. This session explores how building a culture of assessment, supported by intentional data visualization, can highlight outcomes, strengthen... Continue Reading →
In this special episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, we have a rebroadcast from one of our more recent webinars. We started our monthly webinar series back in October of 2025 and if you are a Roompact member, you can participate in these live. For non-Roompact members, we make the recording available after the fact on our website. In this webinar weโll go over the 3C Framework for Residence Life Practice. It takes from all of the models to help you distill down whatโs important for your residents and whatโs on campus. As a framework, itโs flexible and draws from best practices across the field.
Every year, during Interview Week, I find myself having the same conversation with my returning RAs who are helping interview the next cohort. Usually, it happens at the table in between interviewing the candidates. Iโll smile and say something like, โFull circle, huh?โ Just a year or two ago, they were the ones nervously sitting... Continue Reading →
Imagine it: Youโre sitting through the eleventy-ninth candidate interview for a residence life position. Youโre staring at your notes, trying to remember whether it was Candidate #14 or Candidate #17 who said their passion was โconnecting with residents.โ Or was it โresident connectionsโ? Everything is blurring together. Your notes are turning into a string of... Continue Reading →
Weโd like to introduce the Roompact Blogging Cohorts for the upcoming year! Roompact hires bloggers to further increase our contributions to the field through the free dissemination of ideas and knowledge. Every year we refresh our blog cohort with new writers. Earlier this spring, we did a search for part-time bloggers, professionals who liked to... Continue Reading →
In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, Crystal sits down with Ryan Taylor-Gonzalez, Assistant Director of Learning and Assessment at CSU Monterey Bay, to talk about the transition from hall director to mid-level leader in housing. Ryan reflects on the growth, identity shifts, and leadership lessons that come with stepping into broader responsibility.
