Residence life and education, residential curriculum and curricular approaches, student housing, and technology.
We're pleased to welcome Jeanette to the show this week where she and Dustin discuss the importance and methods of utilizing the ACUHO-I Standards in our departmental processes. Jeanette also shares some reflections on recently earning her doctorate in Educational Leadership.
Summertime in education (but not the good kind where you get summer off) presents many opportunities during the break. Although the campus might be quieter during these months, it also poses a challenge in deciding how best to use our time. Should we rest and recuperate from the academic year's demands, or should we plan... Continue Reading →
We're thrilled to have the one and only Heather Shea on the podcast this week! Heather chats with Dustin about her time as ACPA President this past year, celebrating the organization's 100 year history, and her work on the Student Affairs Now podcast.
In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, Stewart chats with Jean MacKimmie, the Director of Residential Life at University Massachusetts Amherst as they explore the potential emotional impacts of student staff unionization drives. They explore Jean's experience at University Massachusetts Amherst over two decades ago when the RA team became the first successful Resident Advisor unionization in the US and what her experiences have been since then working in this environment. Hear first hand from Jean, as she details sage advice that she has provided other campuses that have faced similar events, and discover the support required for all levels of staff. Roompact invites you to join to hear why Jean is regarded as THE expert when it comes to student staff unions!
We're pleased to welcome Amanda to the show this week to share her thoughts on how best to create a vision for your department that this detailed, relevant, and inspiring. She chats with Dustin about disrupting some of the paradigms around creating a vision and how to utilize it consistently to both guide your work and showcase its impact.
In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, Crystal chats with "Dr. G" about the complexities of campus politics. We delve deeper with our guest on how to understand and navigate a campus organization--both the explicit and implicit expectations and norms. Along the way there are many practical strategies and tips on how to get a handle on campus politics and relationship building in your own work.
The "Pro-D in a Bag" series provides all the details you'll need to create a professional development opportunity for your staff around a given topic. Each facilitation guide outlines free and open source videos to watch, articles to read, quizzes and inventories to complete, and suggested questions for discussion and activities. You can facilitate this... Continue Reading →
In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, Paul returns to the hosting chair and chats with Delton Gordon and Luke Hams of Arkansas Tech University about changes they made this year to re-imagine their student staff positions. This included rethinking RA and student staff roles, how they compensated the student employees, and how to make the positions more flexible to meet the needs of a modern student lifestyle.
In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, Erin shares with Dustin how she discovered design thinking, what it is, and how she implements into her work in Residential Education. If you have a topic idea or want to engage in the community discussion, use the hashtag #ResEdChat.
In this episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, we interview newly minted DOCTOR DeAndre Taylor. DeAndre discusses his dissertation study which examined the experiences of Black senior housing officers. Results shared include implications for how the profession can better support a more diverse leadership.
