Resident Advisor Applications Available Now

From Resident Education and Development:

RA applications are available online now! The deadline for application is January 23rd.

Resident Education and Development describes an RA as: "Resident advisors are campus leaders committed to the welfare of students.  The RAs' primary job is to serve as peer advisors, helping students to become knowledgeable about campus.  They create and implement programs to educate residents and to help build strong community connections within their floors and halls, and they share with residents the responsibility to maintain hall environments conducive to safety, learning, and personal development.


Please visit the Resident Education and Development website for an online application.

Tabling Time Approaches

One of our big pushes for connecting with new potential RAPP members happens in Fall. We attend as many welcome events as we can, we visit classrooms, we hang signs all over campus, and I get a monomania around getting the word out.

Our first event this fall is tomorrow! It's exciting that tabling season is hitting!

Tomorrow morning we'll be at a Resource Fair for UC's resident advisors. The RAs will be learning about many campus resources that can help them individually and help their community. We're one of those resources!

Soon we'll be at the International Student Welcome Coffee Hour. During Welcome Week we'll be at countless welcome events.

Wanna join us at our table? RAPPers are always welcome to come help out!
Wanna meet us in person? Potential RAPPers are always welcome to come hang out!

You can keep up with our schedule through the calendar on the right side of this blog! Hope to see you there!

RAPP in the Halls

I first learned about RAPP living in the residence halls at UC. I became an resident advisor in Spring of 1998 and Matt McCaren (longtime RAPP facilitator) was my resident. He soon became an RA and every hall I visited I knew of RAs in RAPP. As I've met more RAPPers from "back in the day" (i.e. back before I'd heard of RAPP), I've found that many of them were also RAs.

This apparent tradition lives on. I just learned that five of our RAPP XXIV members are RAs for the upcoming year! Congratulations to Isaiah Powell, Tad Miller, Emily Sides, Mykea Ruffin, and Lisa Watkins for your RA positions!

I mentioned that we had five RAPPers as RAs in the coming year in my Facebook status yesterday and was delighted to get this comment back from Trisha Lay, a RAPP XVI member:

"i had a res life retreat today and we had to bring something that represented what was important to us when we were 18-22 years old. i brought my rapp xvi shirt...still have it and still thankful for the experience of being a part of rapp."

Pic - Jen P and Lisa W, two RAPP XXIV members who were RAs during their RAPP year.

-Rebecca