In episode 3 of Roompact's series on residence life and education during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Paul Brown discusses trends he's seeing in the adoption of technology and software tools to help staff navigate this unusual time. He also muses on ways this will impact residence life practice in the future, even when the pandemic... Continue Reading →
🦠 ResLife & Corona Episode 2: Practicing Essentialism. What matters most?
In episode 2 of Roompact's series on residence life and education during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Paul Brown discusses the concept of essentialism and how it can be useful as you pivot your practice to these new realities. The concept of essentialism comes from a work by author Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of... Continue Reading →
ResLife Office Set-Ups: Karen Lohr, Hall Director, University of Connecticut
Where do you use Roompact? I use Roompact in my office and also on my work iPhone. What is your office set-up? My office is part of a suite of offices shared with maintenance & housekeeping, RA programming storage space, and my student workers. One of the highlights of my office is my service dog... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for Assessing a Program
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. Programs are often an essential part of a residence life program's educational and... Continue Reading →
🦠 ResLife & Corona Episode 1: How Residential Curriculum Can Help
Much like everyone in the field, we're exploring new ways to do our work and new methods for reaching those we work for. At Roompact, we're experimenting with video and specifically how we can use a VLOG format (Video-Blog) to help engage and educate our audience. It seemed only fitting that for our first foray... Continue Reading →
Curricular Approach Q&A: Can a Curricular Approach Work on a Campus with a Large Commuter Population?
Yes. A curricular approach to student affairs work utilizes the processes and methods of teachers in the classroom and adapts it to the out-of-class setting. Setting learning objectives and planning strategies and engagements with students works regardless of whether they live on campus or not. You may need to think about your curriculum differently, however.... Continue Reading →
Win Prizes in the GREAT Residence Life Roompact Office Set-Up Competition! [CLOSED]
Whether you're working from home or the office, we want to see where you use Roompact! From now until the end of 2021, we're launching a new competition for all of the professionals working at Roompact schools. The Great Residence Life Roompact Office Set-Up Competition is pitting professionals from across the country against each other... Continue Reading →
Curricular Approach Q&A: Where Can I Find Examples of Facilitation Guides?
Facilitation guides function as the “lesson plans” for delivering educational strategies in a residential curriculum or curricular approach. Facilitation guides are detailed plans that provide all of the information necessary so that anyone with the appropriate level of training and skills could execute the planned strategy. A department or division that has a fully realized a curriculum... Continue Reading →
3 ResLife Pro Quick Tips for Roommate Agreements
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. Roommate agreements are a common feature of many residence life departments. Agreements are... Continue Reading →
Residential Curriculum Q&A: Where do RHA’s and Hall Councils Fit into a Curricular Approach?
Residence Hall Associations (RHAs) and Hall Councils are student organizations commonly found in residence halls across the United States. Typical functions for these organizations include student-lead programming, community building efforts, and representation and advocacy around issues of concern to students. When developing a curricular approach, a number of institutions have questioned what role these types of... Continue Reading →
You Don’t Need to Have a Residential Curriculum to Benefit From its Concepts
Developing a residential curriculum or a divisional curricular approach is hard work. It takes time. It can take years to develop a curriculum that you feel is on solid footing and functioning well. The move to a curricular model is not just about identifying objectives, writing facilitation guides, and completing tasks. There is a lot... Continue Reading →
The Roompact Recap for Summer 2020
Preparing for the Fall... This quarterly recap is focused on getting you ready to open your campuses for a very different Fall than usual. As you prepare, please remember that the Roompact staff is here to help you every step of the way. We appreciate the work you do and the meaning and impact it... Continue Reading →
🦠 Planning For Residence Life and Education in the Fall Under COVID-19: Student Learning and Community in Digital and Virtual Residence Halls
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a unique challenge for maintaining residential education and campus community in a time of social distancing and abrupt transitions to online and hybridized learning format. The role of residential education, however, is more critical than ever. Aiding students in identifying support networks, making connections with others, and the sharing of timely and... Continue Reading →
Learning Reconfigured: Engaging Faculty & Academic Partners in the Residential Education Experience [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 →
Intent versus Impact? Do Both! Designing Impactful LLC Programs through Intentional Relationship Building [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 →
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 →
🦠 Primer on Contact Tracing in Residence Hall Communities
Having a plan in place for contract tracing is a key strategy in mitigating the spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2. The CDC states that contract tracing allows you to “trace and monitor the contacts of infected people” and notify those with whom they’ve contact of their exposure. This can also “help ensure the safe,... Continue Reading →
The Roompact Recap for Spring 2020
We appreciate you! As your campuses have been thrown into chaos responding to COVID-19, we know that your lives have also been thrown into chaos. The work you do is important, but YOU are also important. Your Roompact Advisory team and all of us at Roompact want to let you know we are here for... Continue Reading →