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 →
ResLife Pro-D in a Bag: How Might We Re-Imagine the “RA” role? (30 Minutes)
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 →
ResLife Pro-D in a Bag: Green Move-In, Green Move-Out, Greening Campus Housing (30 minutes)
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 →
ResEdChat Ep 27: Delton Gordon and Luke Hams on Re-Imagining RA and Student Staff Positions
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.
ResLife Pro-D in a Bag: Get Up To Speed On Residential Curriculum Basics (1 hour)
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 →
The Roompact Recap for Spring 2023
Spring has Sprung! As the end of the year comes into view, we hope you've found time to practice some self care! Our Spring newsletter is FULL of new updates and happenings. Read on to find out more about what we're up to... Every year, Roompact gives 1% of its revenue to student affairs related non-profits. This year... Continue Reading →
Roompact Welcomes its 2023 ACUHO-I Intern: Kassidy Giles
Weโd like to introduce you to our ACUHO-I intern for 2023, Kassidy Giles!ย Kassidy is helping us out with the development of a professional development curriculum for student staff. She brings a wealth of experience and talent to the team. We're excited to have her. Kassidy Giles Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Hometown: San Diego, CA Alma Mater: University... Continue Reading →
What is the future of the Resident Advisor “RA” position and role?
Within the past few years, residence life and education professionals are increasingly scrutinizing the resident advisor (RA) role. Is it still relevant? Is it sustainable? Have times changed? How have our students changed? What should be the duties of the position? What are reasonable duties for an undergraduate staff member? How do we compensate our... Continue Reading →
What is The Future of RAs? The Position Will Be Obsolete
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, "What is the future of the RA role?" Read More From The Series Guest Post by Victoria Walsh, Professional Staff Member When first reading the question, the word โobsoleteโ immediately came to mind. Now, many who know me would think: โVictoria, how could you say... Continue Reading →
Announcing the 2023 Roompact Bulletin Board Contest Winners!
Roompact's bulletin board competition is now closed and we're ready to announce the winners. We received 100 entires (!), so picking ten was incredibly difficult. Some boards did an excellent job at educating residents, while others were just beautiful! We tried to select a diverse group of winners that reflected the diversity of the submissions... Continue Reading →
What is The Future of RAs? It Is Tied To The Students They Serve
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, "What is the future of the RA role?" Read More From The Series Guest Post by Danielle Jones, Professional Staff Member The question of the future of the RA role is not one that is new or original. This question has found itself posed by... Continue Reading →
What is The Future of RAs? The Pros And Cons Of The RAOD
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, "What is the future of the RA role?" Read More From The Series Guest Post by Kendra Sherman, Professional Staff Member, Seton Hall University Lifesaver. Friend. Resource. These and many others are the expectations of Resident Assistants everywhere. The variety of hats that RAs wear... Continue Reading →
What is The Future of RAs? Serve The Needs of Residents Today, Not Yesterday
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, "What is the future of the RA role?" Read More From The Series Guest Post by Brett Connors, Professional Staff Member Three years later, campuses have begun to return to the โnormalโ operations we blissfully took for granted in January and February 2020, before the COVID-19... Continue Reading →
What is The Future of RAs? Times Have Changed
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, "What is the future of the RA role?" Read More From The Series Guest Post by Susan Robison, Professional Staff Member Our students have had the world flipped on its side in the last three years. They went from being able to see their friends... Continue Reading →
Introducing the Roompact Blog Team 2023
We'd like to introduce the Roompact Blogging Team for the upcoming year! Roompact hires bloggers to further increase our contributions to the field through the free dissemination of ideas and knowledge. Every year we refresh our blog team with a new cohort of writers. Earlier this spring, we did a search for part-time bloggers, professionals... Continue Reading →
Celebrating our 365th blog post… Our TOP TEN posts of all time
We've hit a milestone! In the year of Roompact's 10th anniversary, we are publishing our 365th blog post. That's one post for every day of the year. At Roompact, we always say that the best giveaway we can "hand out" to residence life and housing professionals is not a new pen, or a fancy trendy... Continue Reading →
What is The Future of RAs? Our Pay Disparities Need To Change
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, "What is the future of the RA role?" Read More From The Series Guest Post by Michelle Kinney, Professional Staff Member As we look at the future of the Resident Assistant role across college campuses around the nation, we must first understand that the disparity... Continue Reading →
What is The Future of RAs? We Are Not Those People Anymore
This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, "What is the future of the RA role?" Read More From The Series Guest Post by Sonora Hernandez, Professional Staff Member In the words of television star, the illustrious Moira Rose, โWe are not those people anymore, John.โ We are afraid of change. In a... Continue Reading →



