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Graphic: Remember when our RA bought us cookie cake…?

Posted on Wednesday, September 26th 2012
Tags: avoidance, conflict, mediation, resolution, training
Graphic: Remember when our RA bought us cookie cake…?
by Brody Truce Senior Staff Writer                       Follow Brody Truce on Twitter http://twitter.com/BrodyTruce

Staff Wraps Up Invigorating Retreat Discussions about What They Should Be Doing

Posted on Tuesday, August 14th 2012
Tags: activities, agenda, leadership, retreat, training
Staff Wraps Up Invigorating Retreat Discussions about What They Should Be Doing
In anticipation of another challenging academic year, the administration from St. Rutherford’s College (SRC) met to discuss best practices in higher education. “I always look forward to our staff retreats,” said Sophie Kaling from SRC’s academic advising office. “We spend the whole day imagining what the college would be like if we all adapted cutting [...]

ACPA Files Class Action Lawsuit Against August

Posted on Wednesday, August 1st 2012
Tags: balance, burnout, fall, opening, training, wellness
ACPA Files Class Action Lawsuit Against August
by Lilian Kershaw Staff Writer Today in the District Court for the District of Columbia, lawyers representing ACPA (American College Personnel Association) filed a class action lawsuit against the month of August. In the filing, ACPA alleges that August willfully creates a hostile work environment at all colleges and universities by requiring staff to work [...]

New Resident Assistant out 6-8 Weeks After Intentional Interactions on Move-In Day

Posted on Monday, August 29th 2011
Tags: move-in, ra, training
New Resident Assistant out 6-8 Weeks After Intentional Interactions on Move-In Day
by Jeremy Sly Freelance Writer First-year resident assistant Gerald Thompson, picked by the Associated Press to be the Breslin University RA Rookie of the Year, found himself the victim of an exhausting amount of intentional interactions Monday. The interactions, deemed “brave, but foolhardy” by university officials, has BU’s Housing and Residence Life faculty worried about [...]

Hamburger University on Harkin’s Hotplate

Posted on Wednesday, October 6th 2010
Tags: accreditation, for profit, harkin, hearings, investigation, mcdonalds, senator, training
Hamburger University on Harkin’s Hotplate
McDonald’s Training Program Latest to Come Under Fire by Aloysius St. Bernard Freelance Writer Hamburger University, the landmark training program related to fast-food industry powerhouse McDonald’s, has become the latest for-profit institution to draw the ire of Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose recent hearings focused in bringing to light alleged abuses by for-profit colleges and [...]

Curbside Alert: Gently Used Staff Training Binders

Posted on Tuesday, August 17th 2010
Tags: binders, content, manuals, sample, training
Curbside Alert: Gently Used Staff Training Binders
MEMO To: Campus Colleagues From: Department of Leadership Studies Re: Free staff training binders! Monday afternoon, our office will place 500 of our gently used staff training binders out in the hallway for free pickup! Most of the binders are in almost-mint condition, having only been opened once, when we inserted the guts. You can [...]

Mounting Evidence Indicates Student Affairs Icon Vernon Wall and RuPaul Are Same Person

Posted on Friday, May 28th 2010
Tags: acpa, cabaret, drag, institute, rupaul, sjti, social justice, training, vernon wall
Mounting Evidence Indicates Student Affairs Icon Vernon Wall and RuPaul Are Same Person
by ZackFord Freelance Writer Rumors have long circulated that social justice educator and higher education guru Vernon Wall is actually famed drag persona and actor RuPaul. New evidence has emerged recently showing credible evidence that not only are the rumors true, but the two personas seem to be merging. Jess Brubaker, a graduate assistant in [...]

Puffy Pen Glut Spurs Six Sigma Practices

Posted on Thursday, May 13th 2010
Tags: bents, college, ra, six sigma, students, training
Puffy Pen Glut Spurs Six Sigma Practices
by Brody Truce Senior Staff Writer For the past ten years, resident assistants at Carter College returned to campus two weeks before their peers to participate in RA Training under the direction of James Wallace, Director of Housing. “It was awesome!” explained former RA Katrina Banks. “We played name games and did team builders for [...]

FERPA Enforcement Reaches New Extreme

Posted on Friday, February 26th 2010
Tags: bureaucracy, conduct, cya, enforcement, fear, ferpa, judicial, records, sharing, training
FERPA Enforcement Reaches New Extreme
by Irma Voigt Staff Writer Tired of educating students and parents about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), one university office is taking an extremist approach. “We’re simply denying our mission, vision, our very existence,” said Erik J. DeLaney, Director of Judicial Affairs at Tennison State University, in what he said would be [...]

Residence Life Breaks Age-Old Cliché, Selects Non-Olympics Training Theme

Posted on Wednesday, December 16th 2009
Tags: goose story, human knot, mission possible, olympics, ra, residence life, staff, student affairs, student leader, theme, training
Residence Life Breaks Age-Old Cliché, Selects Non-Olympics Training Theme
Student Affairs experts scratched their heads in befuddled amusement this week, when the Residence Life staff at Mount Jackson University announced it’s mid-year training theme. “Naturally, we assumed it would be the Olympics,” said Dr. Margaret Wexler-Manolo, author of numerous student development bibles. “These moves are as predictable as the human knot and that sappy [...]
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