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“Bored by mediocrity,
turned on by greatness”
The Importance of Housing & Residence Life
in Student Success
Dr. Lynne Holland, Associate Director, HRL
Peggy Crowe, Assistant Director, HRL
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
12 Southwest Hall
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A Touch Of Greatness
Mr. Albert Cullum
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Today's College Student
Dr. Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of
Cultural Anthropology
and Digital
Ethnography
Kansas State
University
Elementary school
teacher in New York for
over 30 years
Housing & Residence Life
 Who
we are
 What we do
 How we can and do partner with
the university community
Who we are
Mission:
• The Department of Housing and Residence Life, in partnership
with the student and the university community, will provide a
premier living/learning experience that ensures student success.
Beliefs:
• Each person is unique;
• Each person has intrinsic value;
• Each person has the capacity to learn;
• Each person has the capacity to be successful;
• Each person is responsible for his/her own decisions;
• Each person influences environments, environments influence
each person.
Strategies
We will:
• Maintain and continually improve our facilities;
• Continually develop and strengthen our organization’s human
resources to embrace continual change and improvement and
pervasive leadership;
• Foster students’ learning by intentionally promoting and
providing educational experiences;
• Partner with others in the university community to enhance
the academic mission;
• Enable students to declare a vision of their success;
• Create and implement a targeted marketing plan that
educates and attracts students to our on-campus experience;
• Recognize and celebrate success.
Staff of HRL
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Professional Staff Members
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Leadership Team & Support Staff
Coordinator for Residence Life
Residence Hall Director
Assistant Residence Hall Director
Graduate Assistant
Student Staff within HRL (over 250)
Educational preparation
Extensive training and staff development
Diverse representation of staff
Why live on campus?
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Retention and Graduation
– “Students living on campus are more likely to
persist and graduate than students who
commute” (Pascarella and Terenzini, 2005, p.
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Values and Beliefs
– Living on campus positively effected increases
in “aesthetic, cultural and intellectual values”
(Pascarella and Terenzini, 2005, p. 421).
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Diversity
– Residence Halls influence a “positive shift toward
more positive and inclusive racial-ethnic attitudes and
openness to diversity broadly defined”
(Pascarella and Terenzini, 2005, p. 310).
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Academic Achievement
– University of Michigan Study found that living and
learning programs has an effect on students’ academic
achievement and intellectual engagement
(Pasque and Murphy, 2005).
– Several DEEP institutions found residence halls
promote and support intellectual vitality
(Kuh et al, 2005).
What happens in
residence halls?
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Community Development (including,
providing educational opportunities and
implementing community standards)
Recruitment, supervision, training, and
evaluation of staff
Adjudicate educational discipline
conferences
Facilities management (e.g., maintenance,
24-hour desk operation)
Just to name a few…
HRL and Student Success
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Living Learning Communities
Involvement with 5th week assessment
Providing educational opportunities
Student Staff recruitment, training, development
Student staff leadership opportunities
Dynamic Leadership Institute (DLI)
NUFP Fellowship Program (NASPA)
Living Learning Communities
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Living Learning Communities (LLC) are unique
living environments where students with
similar interests and academic goals live and
study together. Students enrolled in a two or
three course cluster attend classes with a
small, core group of students and live
together. Advising, tutoring, on-site classes,
and special opportunities for faculty, staff, and
student interactions bring academics into the
residence halls.
Why Living Learning
Communities?
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Supports the First-Year Experience
– DEEP institutions also demonstrate that
effective institutions connect residential
learning and the first-year experience
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Connecting curriculum and noncurriculum
Civic and community engagement
Provides multiple safety nets for students
WKU Living Learning
Communities (LLCs)
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Gateway
CHHS
A.C.E.S.
J. L. Marshall Business LLC
ROTC
Honors
GATEWAY
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Inception: Fall 2003
Mission: To provide learning opportunities,
activities, and academic support for first year
students.
First year students, both female and male,
generally undeclared
Partnership with the University Experience,
Academic Affairs & the Department of Housing
and Residence Life
CHHS LLC
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Inception: Fall 2005
Mission: The Health and Human Services Living
Learning Community is dedicated to students in or
considering a program in the health professions arena.
Participants share and learn from students with similar
interests and experiences, participate in activities that
broaden the academic experience, build professional
relationships with faculty members and professionals
in the field, and establish lasting friendships with
fellow community members.
CHHS LLC
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First year students enrolled in the College of
Health and Human Services
Partnership and sponsorship with Greenview
Regional Hospital (TriStar Health System),
College of Health and Human Services, and the
Department of Housing and Residence Life
A.C.E.S. LLC
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Inception: Fall 2005
The mission of the Living and Learning Community of
Bowling Green Community College is to enhance students'
successful matriculation into a global society by engaging
them in academic, residential, and social experiences.
First year students, female and male, enrolled in the Bowling
Green Community College and residing in the residence
halls.
Partnership with the Bowling Green Community College and
the Department of Housing and Residence Life
J. L. MARSHALL
BUSINESS LLC
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Inception: Fall 2007
First year students, female and male, enrolled in the
Gordon Ford College of Business and residing in the
residence halls.
Partnership with the Gordon Ford College of
Business, James Marshall, and the Department of
Housing and Residence Life
Theme Living Options
Women of Western (WOW)
 The FIT Community
 Mosaic Community
 Education Community
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Future living options
WISE-UP (Women in Science & Engineering –
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Undergraduate Program)
A community designed to encourage, support, and retain
female students interested in the fields of math, science, or
engineering. Faculty members serve as mentors and role
models to provide both academic and professional support
for community members. This community is supported
within the residence hall setting with programs that and
residence hall staff who assist with students’ transition to
college life.
Men of Distinction
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A Theme Living Option (TLO)
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“Creating Intellectually, Emotionally, and Socially
Developed Male Leaders”
The Men of Distinction living option strives to
create male leaders within an environment
focused on whole person development through
an engaged relationship between the resident,
Housing and Residence Life staff, and other
university and community resources.
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The Intercultural Exchange
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A Living Learning Community
This community will house an interested domestic
student with an international student to live a
“true” cultural immersion experience. Students will
self-select to be a member of this community and
have a desire to live with and learn from someone
of a different culture than their own. Classroom
linkages are yet to be determined.
Strategies to continue to
work together…
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Become familiar with our faces – who we are
and what we do
Use us as a resource for students academic,
social, and personal success
Ask us questions; share concerns; help us to
partner and find solutions
Partner with us when students/parents share
concerns or suggestions
Resources
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Astin, A. W. (1993b). What matters in college? Four critical years revisited. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Kinzie, J., & Kuh, G.D. (2004). Going DEEP: Learning from campuses that
share responsibility for student success. About Campus, 9(5), 2-8.
Kuh, G.D. (2003). What we’re learning about student engagement from
NSSE. Change, 35(2), 24-32.
Kuh, G. D., Kinzie, J., Schuh, J. H., Whitt, E. J. & Associates (2005). Student
success in college: Creating conditions that matter. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Kuh, G. D., Kinzie, J., Schuh, J. H., & Whitt, E. J. (2005). Assessing conditions
for student success: An inventory to enhance educational effectiveness. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
National Survey of Student Engagement (2000). The NSSE 2000 Report:
National benchmarks of effective educational practice. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research.
Students' out-of-class experiences and their influence on learning and
cognitive development: A literature review. Journal of College Student
Development, 37, 149-162.
THANK YOU
FOR ATTENDING!
Dr. Lynne Holland, Associate Director, HRL
Peggy Crowe, Assistant Director, HRL
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
12 Southwest Hall
270-745-2037