Programming and Community Building are a vital part of the students learning experience outside of the classroom.  It is your job as a Resident Advisor to provide quality programs and experiences in the hall for the students in your area. 

You will be asked each week to visit the Student Staff Portal at and submit hours to your supervisor of how you earned your programming hours for the week.  

Some of the reasons why we program:  

• To promote interaction

• To send messages

• To educate

• To raise awareness

• To socialize
  

Section 7.1 Residence Life Programming Model  

Res Life Core Values  

1. Provide clean, comfortable, and well-maintained facilities.

2. Provide competitively priced student housing.

3. Provide innovative resources/technology for learning.

4. Provide a quality well-trained professional staff.

5. Provide programs that enhance intellectual, emotional and social development.

6. Provide a learner centered environment.

Based on our core values, the following are the most effective areas to address student development needs and will focus our programming model toward these areas: 

• Provide innovative resources/technology for learning

• Provide program that enhance intellectual, emotional and social development

• Provide a learner centered environment

Theory Connected to the Residence Life Programming Model 

Magolda’s Four Dimensions of Learning

• Cognitive competence - Knowledge of key ideas, facts, dates and places

• Interpersonal competence - Communication skills and relationships with others

• Intrapersonal competence - Understanding ones emotions, decisions and actions

• Practical competence – Learning through experience or practice

Magolda believes that students should be challenged in an environment that provides support structures to achieve complex lifelong learning. Using each of these areas can assist in providing the challenge that our students need for a well-rounded educational experience.

Information from Baxter-Magolda, M.B, King, P. M, (2004). Learning Partnerships : Theory and Models of Practice to Educate for Self-Authorship 

Program Model Learning Outcomes Based on Core Values and Grounding Theory 

• Students will formulate and express their own thoughts about issues (Value #5)

• Students will demonstrate an understanding of hall policy (Value #3)

• Students will use campus resources to successfully navigate through the academic year (Value #3)

• Students will develop conflict resolution skills by engaging with others effectively (Value #5)

• Students will learn appropriate contacts to affect physical changes in their living environments (Value #6)

• Students will better understand how their behavior impacts their communities (Value #5&6)

• Students will demonstrate respect for self and others (Value #6)

Section 7.2 Action Plans

We use action plans to help build a sense of community on the wing.

Community – refers to a group of people sharing a common purpose who are interdependent for the fulfillment of certain needs, who live in close proximity and interact on a regular basis, who share in defining expectations for all members of the group, assume responsibility for meeting those expectations, and who are respectful and considerate of the individuality of other persons in the group.

Community Development – is the process of shaping the environment, of building on the experiences and needs of members both individually and collectively, of creating the attitudes and developing the skills necessary to progress toward the realization of those conditions that make up a community.

Sense of Community – refers to the feeling of cooperation, of commitment to the group welfare, or willingness to communicate openly, and of responsibility to and for others, as well as one’s self.  

PURPOSE FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITY

• Creating an environment conducive to study and learning should exist within the hall.

• Community requires and stimulates the development of personal competencies and skills.

• Community influences resident’s attitudes and behaviors after graduation (therefore it ultimately affects the larger society).

BUILDING COMMUNITY ACTION PLANS

Section 7.3 Programming Guidelines

 

Programming Guidelines For RAs and CAs