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 →

September 29, 2020

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 →

September 15, 2020

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 →

June 17, 2020

Intent versus Impact? Do Both! Designing Impactful LLC Programs through Intentional Relationship Building [Webinar Recording]

June 10, 2020

Expand Your Engagement: Creating an Innovative Curricular Approach [Webinar Recording]

June 3, 2020

NEW Fourth Edition of “Developing a Co-Curricular Learning Model” for Student Affairs and Residence Life!

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 →

April 21, 2020

Recapping Day 3 of the 2019 Institute on the Curricular Approach

Roompact is proud to sponsor of ACPA's Institute on the Curricular Approach. Offered annually to educators and professionals in residence life and education, the Institute is a three day series of sequential workshops and sessions that teach participants how to implement a curricular approach to education in residence life and student affairs. As provider of software that... Continue Reading →

October 15, 2019

Recapping Day 2 of the 2019 Institute on the Curricular Approach

October 14, 2019

Recapping Day 1 of the 2019 Institute on the Curricular Approach

October 13, 2019

Understanding Strategy Types in Implementing Your Residential Curriculum

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 →

August 18, 2019

Harmonizing Divisional and Departmental Curricula

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 →

August 6, 2019

4 Questions to Ask Your Student Affairs Staff About Their Roles as Educators

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 →

July 29, 2019

RA Training for Residential Curriculum: Throughout the Year

RA Training For Residential Curriculum Part 7

The following is part of a series of blog posts addressing a number of areas related to developing a training program for RAs and student staff members working within a residential curriculum model. Posts included in this series are: An Overview Tone Setting and Basics Involving RAs and Generating Buy-In Sequencing and Planning Resources and... Continue Reading →

July 2, 2019