Residence life and education, residential curriculum and curricular approaches, student housing, and technology.
This post is one in a series about integrating Restorative Practices into a model for residential learning. Start with the introduction as a primer and explore posts on other strategies you can utilize with a restorative lens.| Introduction | Roommate Agreements | Floor Meetings & Circles | Curriculum Development | Residential Curriculum | Intentional Conversations... Continue Reading →
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. An inevitable part of every housing professional's fall is dealing with roommate conflict. But how can you get a handle on it? We've go three tips... 1.... Continue Reading →
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. Suitemate Agreements (or Apartment Agreements) are intended for groupings of students who share a... Continue Reading →
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 →
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. Roommate agreements are a common feature of many residence life departments. Agreements are typically a shared document that includes a number of questions and prompts roommates must... Continue Reading →
The ultimate mission of student affairs work is to advance student learning. Although this occurs across campus, the professionals that work in residence life are uniquely situated in this process given the relatively high level of contact they have with students. Unlike most faculty members, however, the educational environment created by student affairs and residence life educators... Continue Reading →
We're all familiar with the premise that food is a necessary component of any educational endeavor in the residence halls. Attract residents with pizza and then ambush them with educational content. Although there is nothing wrong with incentivizing participation in an educational activity, the premises behind this mindset are problematic. This approach assumes that the problem with an educational program... Continue Reading →
