The recent changes to FLSA overtime regulations have significant implications for those of us in the Housing and Residence Life profession. The rules go into effect on December 1st, 2016, and you can bet there will be no shortage of discussion on this topic at every local, regional, and national association meeting.
The topic of labor costs has received the lion’s share of professional attention from Continue reading
I’ll share what I think are helpful tips for housing professionals using systems (Advocate by Symplicity) and software (Microsoft Office) that are common tools in higher education. Today’s focus will be on using pivot tables to get descriptive statistics on your student conduct. Specifically, we’ll use the reporting tool to create a spreadsheet of data from cases marked “Closed Responsible” and the students involved in those cases. Our residential conduct procedures process each parent case into individual child cases, giving a 1:1 ratio of student to case, which is an important caveat to the process described below.
First, I use the reporting tool in Symplicity to extract the data I need about student conduct. This is done using the “Reporting” tool. Choose “Add New Report”. Select the following fields: Continue reading
“Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change” by Miller and Rollnick (second edition).
In our system, 10-30% of a Resident Director’s (RD) weekly hours can be spent on this processing and hearing alleged violations of housing policy. Conduct adjudication also represents one of the most individualized educational conversations the RD can have with a student. As a result, building a sound link between how that meeting is executed and our Residential Education Model (REM) represents an excellent opportunity to engage students in reflective dialogue. From our website:
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