Residence life and education, residential curriculum and curricular approaches, student housing, and technology.
I’m beginning to feel like a reality television host, but I have to say it: this year was our most exciting year yet. Welcome to this year’s “State of Roompact Address”! Looking Back This year we signed on more clients than ever before. We also provided on-campus software training to most of those new clients... Continue Reading →
Megan has been with Roompact from Day 1. She walked up and down the streets of Chicago with Matt, brainstorming how to build the company. She also represented Roompact at our first conference, GLACUHO 2014! Over the years, Megan has taken care of many of the unglamorous aspects of building and maintaining a business. Today,... Continue Reading →
Today is the day! We're excited to be hosting educators and professionals from across the country for our first annual Roompact Users Conference. Attendees can expect educational sessions that will help them maximize the use of Roompact's software to aid them achieving their organizational and learning goals. Below you will find some of our presenters... Continue Reading →
Roompact is pleased to announce its first annual user's conference scheduled for this fall in our hometown of Chicago, IL on Sunday, October 14th, 2018 between 12:30pm-4:30pm at The Westin O'Hare. During this conference you can expect Showcase sessions from current Roompact clients, sprint sessions doing deeper dives into Roompact features and best practices, and the... Continue Reading →
Although the residential curriculum model was designed to support student learning on college campuses, the concepts in curricular approaches are equally as applicable to business and everyday work concepts. As outlined by Kerr, Tweedy, Edwards, and Kimmel (2017), curricular approaches are guided by "10 essential elements." At Roompact, we find many of these elements align with... Continue Reading →
While managing our support email here at Roompact, I’ve encountered a wide variety of questions and writing styles, ranging from short report requests to detailed technical issues to frustrated parents. To date, I’ve answered over a thousand emails. I love helping people work through everyday questions and technological hiccups, collaborating to solve problems--support is really... Continue Reading →
Matt is the founder and CEO at Roompact. From Roompact's earliest beginnings focusing on roommate agreement to the full suite of features we have today, Matt has been at the helm of Roompact since day one. Matt works on a little bit of everything at Roompact, from keeping the books, to helping with sales and... Continue Reading →
Paul Gordon Brown joined the Roompact team as the Director of Curriculum, Training, and Research in the spring of 2016. Paul wears a number of hats at Roompact. You might know him best in his most public facing role within the company: as our social media and blog coordinator. Paul also develops the training materials used by our... Continue Reading →
The solution is simple but counterintuitive: Stake out the smallest market you can imagine. The smallest market that can sustain you, the smallest market you can adequately serve. This goes against everything you learned in capitalism school, but in fact, it's the simplest way to matter. - Seth Godin Many of us believe that mattering—being... Continue Reading →
When I was a bit younger, I was interested in creating the "Next Big Thing." I wanted to create a consumer-facing web application, convince investors to pour in millions of dollars, acquire a massive number of users, and then sell the company 5 years later. I wanted to start a "startup." Then my eyes opened to... Continue Reading →
Many of our clients wonder about our logo and its origin story. In this post Roompact’s CEO and Founder, Matt Unger, provides some background on how it came to be. After deciding on Roompact’s name, choosing a logo was the natural next step. One of the questions I get asked the most in regards to... Continue Reading →
This year, our team thought we'd start a tradition called the "State of Roompact Address." As President of Roompact, it's my privilege to guide you through a look back on 2016 and a look forward to 2017. Looking Back At the beginning of the year, Christian Charukiewicz stepped into the role of Chief Technology Officer... Continue Reading →
I came of age in residence life alongside digital technology and the World Wide Web. My first professional position was as a First Year Advisor in the Office of Residence Life and New Student Programs at Miami University 2002. At that time, our department was on the cutting edge. We had our own in-house-developed web... Continue Reading →
Before Roompact evolved into the comprehensive residential education software you know today, it began its life focusing solely on digital roommate agreements. Matt, our CEO and founder, recalls the story of how Roompact got its name... The idea for creating online roommate agreement software came to me in June of 2013, but the company needed... Continue Reading →
Education without the School: A Summer with Roompact I thought I finally had it. I thought I finally knew what I wanted to do with my life. For four years I was set on going to graduate school, and if I managed my finances properly, even pursuing a PhD. That’s before I came to the... Continue Reading →
At Roompact, we like to have fun with our work. We also thrive on trying new and creative things. As our team has been expanding (and because one of our team members recently completed his PhD!) we decided it was time for a business card refresh, but we wanted to do something different. With this in... Continue Reading →
We're excited. We're really excited. Roompact is officially "on duty." After a lot of hard work, we're ready to re-launch our blog presence. Our hope is that this blog will serve as a professional development resource for our colleagues in residence life and housing. We believe that, as partners in enhancing residential student learning, it is our... Continue Reading →
