Resident Assistant

At the beginning of the year, create a Twitter account to be used by the Resident Assistants in your hall.  Use this as a means to share quick announcements with residents in your building. You can also use your Twitter account to recognize others in your building for the awesome ...

Watch Your Plant Grow Along With You This Year! Description: My residents consist of all girls and primarily freshman. I made door tags to welcome my residents by taking a flower clipart, putting their name on the brim of the pot and the meaning of their name on the pot. On ...

It looks like a plain old box, but when you open it up, MAGIC!!!   Really, just kinda like welcome back to school stuff.    

How to get residents to your programs early on

This year we chose a luau theme for our building. I thought that a map of our "island" would be a great way to help the new students get familiar with campus. I used construction paper, drew a map of the campus, and labeled all of the building names. Easy ...

Description: This program is designed for Freshman on Campus to get involved in their new community! Bring in represenitives from all over campus and the community and talk about the volunteering oppertunities, and the job oppertunities that were available on campus. Its best if you do this the first few ...

Description: Make a simple bulletin board to let residents share what they did over the summer. Instructions: Use a large Sheet of paper and decorate with a few items. Don't forget to tape a marker nearby so residents will stop and include their experiences with others. Crystal Kaszmetskie Kutztown University

Your boyfriend demands that you tell him every part of your day. You do not allow your boyfriend to have friends who are girls. You and your boyfriend have an argument, you start to walk away but he grabs your arm and pulls you back to him. Your long term boyfriend keeps all of ...

This was the very first program that I put on for my residents last year. I actually made this a residence hall wide program teaming up with some other RAs to have a massive advertisement and more funding for the program. We decided to have pizza at the program because ...

Help your Freshmen residents get to know their way around campus through a friendly Where's Waldo Competition. 

Description: A test of the residents dknowledge of who lives and works in their community. Instructions: 1. Take pictures of staff and residents that are commonly seen in their facility. 2. Place pictures on bullettin board with questions underneath them abouth the person or people in picture. 3. Place instructions and ballots near ...

Description: This program was presented at the 1998 IACURH conference. In a large room hang signs that read "bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, etc...). In the kitchen, have non-alcoholic mixed drinks prepared. As each resident enters the room, hand them a slip with a role on it for them to play (i.e.-Social drinker w/ a 1 ...