Tag: ACUHO-I Resident Educational Services

“Addressing those aspects of residential life that promote personal growth, community building, and student advising, this competency is grounded in student development research, theories, and models exploring how college students grow and develop. It includes academic initiatives that integrate the academic experiences of students with their on-campus residential experiences, including the broad scope of residential academic support, living-learning programs, residential colleges, residential curriculum tutoring, peer mentoring programs, and other initiatives. In addition, it includes programs and services to train, supervise, and advance the role of undergraduate student leaders who serve as live-in resident assistants.”

Expand Your Engagement: Creating an Innovative Curricular Approach [Webinar Recording]

This free webinar series, hosted by Roompact in collaboration with the University of South Florida Department of Residential Education, was designed for scholar-practitioners to explore, analyze, and evaluate innovative engagement practices to enhance student success and academic excellence. This four-week series has intentionally scaffolded learning to allow subject matter experts to share strategies, techniques, and... Continue Reading →

Harmonizing Divisional and Departmental Curricula

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Student affairs divisional curricula often evolve either from "division-to-department" or "department-to-division." In the "division-to-department" approach, a division takes the lead in developing a collective educational priority and set of learning objectives that guide curriculum development at the departmental level. In a "department-to-division" approach, it is often one constituent department that may take the lead and... Continue Reading →

RA Training for Residential Curriculum: An Overview

RA Training For Residential Curriculum Part 1

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model.  Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and... Continue Reading →

Utilizing Existing Campus-Wide Assessments and Measures in Your Curricular Approach

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As one of the essential elements of a curricular approach, assessment should occur at all levels of your curriculum. This includes on-the-ground assessment of individual learning activities, but also broader based assessment of overall curriculum effectiveness. One way of achieving this broader-based assessment is to utilize data collection instruments you may already be using and... Continue Reading →

Are You Organizationally Ready To Take On a Curricular Approach?

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Because a curricular approach is revolutionary as opposed to evolutionary, it is necessary that you think about organizational culture and organizational change processes before undertaking this journey. For many, this shift in approach requires the development of a learning-centric organization. An organization that moves beyond "exposure" through program attendance, and towards "learning" (Kerr & Tweedy,... Continue Reading →

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