Residence life and education, residential curriculum and curricular approaches, student housing, and technology.
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. Many departments utilize intentional conversations as an educational strategy. Intentional conversations are, as... Continue Reading →
These horoscopes are for entertainment purposes only... and are... hopefully... entertaining. Read more in the ResLife Horoscopes series. Capricorn December 22 - January 20 You've made it half way through the Spring semester! It may have seemed like you were constantly pivoting and putting out fires, but that will decrease as the month ends. It... Continue Reading →
In this first episode of Roompact's ResEdChat, we introduce the video series and podcast and its goals. You can think of ResEdChat as a digital variety hour for residence life and education professionals that will include presentations, panels, and interviews. If you have a topic idea or want to engage in the community discussion, use the hashtag #ResEdChat.
Roompact became a certified B-Corp in 2022. Although we're certified, we're never done! We want to be better. We will be sharing some of our experiences, thoughts, and ideas right here on our blog. By practicing transparency ourselves, we hope you will hold us accountable. We also hope that by sharing our own actions and... 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. Entry level positions in residence life are plentiful. Upper level positions are not.... Continue Reading →
These horoscopes are for entertainment purposes only... and are... hopefully... entertaining. Read more in the ResLife Horoscopes series. Capricorn December 22 - January 20 Winter blues got you down? Seasonal Affective Disorder taking over? Don’t worry. It's normal this kind of year. Get moving. Seek out some sunshine. Perhaps some changes to your daily routine... Continue Reading →
Thank You! Welcome to 2021! A year that will hopefully be a bit more manageable than 2020. We appreciate your ongoing partnership and wanted to say thank you for all of the great work you do and all of the great work we've done together. 2020 was also a big year of change for Roompact.... 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 →
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. Transitioning to a curricular approach represents a cultural shift. A department can have... Continue Reading →
Since Roompact was founded, we've always tried to be a different kind of company. A company that takes care of its employees, its campus partners, and is responsible to people and planet. We also work with college and universities, and more specifically student affairs divisions and residence life departments, that expect this of us. We... Continue Reading →
Roompact is STOKED to be offering an ACUHO-I Summer internship for the first time. It represents a unique opportunity for the right graduate student. You can experience what a "higher education adjacent" career path might look like, you can interact with many different campuses (not just one!), and you'll have a lot of freedom to... Continue Reading →
These horoscopes are for entertainment purposes only... and are... hopefully... entertaining. Read more in the ResLife Horoscopes series. Capricorn December 22 - January 20 Things are looking up this month! You successfully made it through the past term and you now have a better handle on what this academic year will look like. It's a... Continue Reading →
This position is now closed. Find other opportunities on our career page. Roompact is a dynamic place to work and we’re growing! Specifically, we’re looking to hire a new software engineer to join our team. Below you will find a more formal position description, but more informally, we’re looking for dynamic individuals who are relationship... Continue Reading →
Where do you use Roompact? I am beyond grateful to be able to utilize Roompact in my apartment style residence hall office here in beautiful North Dakota. You can catch me in my office daily working on projects and serving our residence hall students in any way that I can. What is your office set-up?... Continue Reading →
Where do you use Roompact? I use Roompact in my on-campus office located in the Residence Life Office at Central Washington University. I find the Internet connection is more stable and faster than my office at home. What is your office set-up? Minimalism at its best! I recently upgraded monitors to have not only 2... Continue Reading →
In the early days of starting Roompact back in 2013, I always told myself: One day at a time. Just make a little bit of progress every single day, and after a while, those little increments of progress will compound into something great. Just keep moving forward. Throughout 2020, I had to remind myself of... Continue Reading →
In episode 7 of Roompact's series on residence life and education during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Paul Brown discusses the importance of real-time assessment. Although always a useful exercise, it becomes increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being able to get information back quickly to inform daily decisions can allow you to adapt more quickly... Continue Reading →
Whether you're just starting your journey towards a curricular approach or whether you're looking to improve your current practice, connecting with peer institutions for idea generation, collaboration, and benchmarking can be incredible useful and there are a number of different avenues available to you. One of the easiest places to begin connecting is by attending... Continue Reading →
