Curriculum & Education
These conversations make up the bulk of the RAs role in community building and are an essential piece of our Residential Curriculum model.
What is an Intentional Interaction?
When on duty, you're responsible for completing rounds of your building and looking for safety and security concerns. This is perhaps the most common thing you'll be looking for.
What are propped doors?
This person from each staff is responsible for picking up the duty phone each night, texting in by 5 p.m., and sitting in the RA office after 8 p.m.
What is the primary RA on Duty?
Quiet hours begin at this time every night.
What is 10 p.m. on school nights and 12 a.m. on non-school nights?
This is new to training this year and is an optional evening gathering for staff to relax, unwind, and connect with others.
What is the hospitality room?
This is the difference between first year student learning outcomes and returning student learning outcomes.
What is returning student outcomes that build upon the first year student learning outcomes. They are the same topics, just further along in their development.
This is the critical reason for RAs being on duty from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. on weekdays and 24 hours on weekends.
What is the Residence Life office is closed and RAs are the primary respondents to all campus incidents during these times.
This grade point average must be met in order to maintain good standing in your Resident Assistant position.
What is 2.5 cumulative GPA throughout employment; Semester GPA must not fall below 1.5 any semester throughout employment? (either of these answers are accepted for full points)
This (brand new to Western) governing body is made up of students who adjudicate low level/first time student handbook policy violations.
What is the Peer Conduct Board?
This was Spirit Theme for the day on Monday, August 12.
What is Western Spirit Day?
This is the reason for our department's switch from traditional programming model to residential curriculum model.
What is we valued education outside of the classroom, it's more strategic and intentional, or we have a better impact. (any one of these three answers will count)
This is the (3 step) chain of command for response to incidents on campus.
What is 1. RA 2. Security 3. Resident Director on call?
*You may also always call 911 for emergent situations before calling Security and the RD.
These three tasks must be completed by every RA prior to move-in.
What are RCCs, bulletin boards, door decs? (Must answer all three for full points)
When responding to an alcohol related incident this is the most important consideration.
What is the safety of residents involved (intoxication, signs of alcohol poisoning, amount of alcohol/paraphernalia in room); calling for medical help if residents show signs of alcohol poisoning?
This strategy is used when communicating and making connections with someone you may not know and can be described as "looking for similarities/things in common between you and the other person".
What is Find the "Me toos"?
This will be the first Curriculum lesson plan that you will facilitate this year. It is actually two lesson plans in one. Name both.
What are the First Floor Meeting and Community Guidelines lesson plans?
These are the three components of a correct response to a suicidal ideation situation.
What are Question, Persuade, and Refer?
These four tasks are to be completed by every Resident Assistant weekly.
What are intentional interactions, maintaining a floor presence, meetings, and community building?
Resident Assistants are responsible employees (also known as mandatory reporters). You must report all incidents of this kind.
What is Title IX or sexual misconduct?
These are the four tenants of courageous conversations.
What are stay engaged, embrace discomfort, speak your truth, and expect and accept a lack of closure? (Must answer all four for points)
Known as Learning Goals, these are the five pillars of our Residential Curriculum model. Name all five.
What are Practical Life Skills, Personal Wellbeing, Interpersonal Engagement, Civic Engagement, and Academic Curiosity & Success?
When responding to an emergency situation, these are the three reasons you MUST contact the RD on Call.
What are situations that are life threatening, emergency personnel are responding to campus, and students being transported from campus?
Resident Assistants will be terminated from their role immediately for these few (three) reasons.
What are zero tolerance policy (alcohol), misuse of keys, sharing of confidential/privileged information?
When responding to a marijuana incident and the student has a medical marijuana card, this is the correct response.
What is call security (no police response is necessary), confiscate marijuana (security or professional staff should do this - the RA should not), explain policy violation and conduct process to student, answer any questions the student may have.
These leadership characteristics are portrayed by the animals that make up the leadership compass - deer, eagle, bear, buffalo.
What are action/sacrifice/courage (buffalo); change/spontaneous/creative (eagle); relationship/caring (deer); and rational/facts (bear)?
Name one overarching theme from each direction of the compass for full points.