Share Jamie & Ed chat with Laurie Berry, Director of Housing & Residence Life at the University of Southern Indiana, about starting PhD work while balancing work and life. Laurie shares important insights on the current professional landscape for PhDs in the field of Residence Life. Hot Topic of the week: Learning outcomes & assessment
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ShareJoin Jamie and Ed tonight with guest Ziena Miller and Deb Schmidt-Rogers as they discuss making the move to a live-off position. 4:00 pm (CST) Listen Live here BreakDrink Live Ziena Miller is the Coordinator for the Department of Residential Education at DePaul University. Previously, she has worked at the University of Southern Indiana, was [...]
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ShareDid you miss the premiere of Jamie and Ed’s new podcast On Duty? Here is your second chance to hear it. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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ShareCatch the preview of our new podcast focused on Residence Life. It will be premiering Thursday 7:00 pm (CST) after the weekly BreakDrink podcast at 6:30. The host of the Res Life Podcast are: Jamie Workman is a Coordinator of Residence Life at Miami University, and a student in the Higher Education PhD program at [...]
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ShareSunday night as I was surfing through my alerts when I discovered several articles discussing the Census and Residence Halls. I sent out a message on twitter and got a great response. Here is the response I got from Lynn Ellison, Res Life professional extraordinaire. On Sunday, I noticed the following tweet from Jeff: “I’m [...]
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ShareLoyola University Maryland will be adding additional housing communities that will provide learning around students interest. Loyola has named the new communities Mission house and Wellness House. The Greyhound reports… Mission House is a community that strives to live out the core values of our Jesuit education. The students who live in this community will [...]
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ShareLast week I discovered an article about South Dakota State disconnecting their phones lines from residence halls. Today I discovered a similar article about Concordia University which will save them about $200,000 a year. It caused me to think…how common is this so I decided to do a poll. Does your campus still provide phone [...]
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ShareI have not had a home phone line in years, so it did not occur to me that universities still provided phone lines in their residence halls. Earlier this week there was a article on kotatv.com that said… In a cost cutting measure, the University of South Dakota is getting rid of dorm room phones [...]
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ShareIt seems that many of the recent stories in student affairs have been in the residence life area. USA Today reports a study that finds …that students in coed dorms are far more likely than those in single-sex dorms to drink alcohol regularly – and nearly 2½ times as likely to drink to excess on [...]
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