Housing and Residence Life: Community & Engagement | Competencies & Learning | Care & Case Management | Assessment
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
We're excited to release the fourth edition of our eBook on residential curriculum and curricular approaches, written by Dr. Paul Gordon Brown and sponsored by Roompact. The content is expanded from the third edition and now includes more visuals and worksheets. As before, it remains freely available for you to download and use. Whether you're... Continue Reading →
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented situation for residence life departments across the county. As many campuses make the transition to online classes, at Roompact, we're witnessing first-hand how our software has become more critical than ever. Additionally, many of our clients are using Roompact's features and solutions in new and novel ways. Here is what... Continue Reading →
Congratulations to all the winners and participants in our third annual Roompact Door Dec Contest! There were so many creative submissions, and the decision was hard, but we’re happy to have new wall art for the 2019-2020 academic year. Here are our winners... Student Staff Category First PlaceBriana at Alvernia University Second PlaceRenee at Youngstown... Continue Reading →
We're growing! Earlier this summer Roompact moved into a new office space and we wanted to share our new digs with you. We are in a shared building with other companies as a part of the Novel Coworking group. This gives us access to a lot of shared amenities, just like our old space, but... Continue Reading →
When conceiving of programmatic efforts, there can be a tendency to focus on the overall number of programs instead of their quality. For example, within residence life, many program models require that staff members must complete x number of events or programs per semester. Relying on an overall number of programs, however, ignores an important variable... Continue Reading →
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 →
Student Affairs focuses on student learning. As articulated in our founding documents, as reflected in the curricula of our graduate preparation programs, and as represented in our professional associations and conferences, college student learning is the core of our work. And yet, sometimes our roles may not reflect this. From the first Student Personnel Point of... Continue Reading →
Summer is upon us and the Fall is coming quickly. We hope it has been relaxing for you. One of the most exciting things we're working on this summer is an update to the Roommate Agreements module. Roommate Agreements was one of the first pieces of code ever written at Roompact and it has been... Continue Reading →
