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RAs say what?!
How much do they care?
Support
Residents have a lot to say.
Experiences
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Experience, Reflection, Action are elements of this conversation.
What is 'Who Are You Becoming?' conversation #2?
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56.2% of students stated that the roommate agreement helped them manage what in a more positive way?
What is conflict?
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RHD Deadline Reminders
What are times when RAs entered conversations in notes. Most RAs reported that they tracked their conversations only when their RHD reminded them of a deadline coming up (40%) or waited until all of their conversations were complete before tracking them (22.5%)
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Which part of residents' residence hall experience has been most valuable
What are "One on one conversations with my RA." (34.9%) Runner up: "Weekly traditions/events on my floor." (31.5%)
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Approximately 65% of residents attended at least one of these with their RA.
What are hall or campus experiences? 80% of residents who attended agreed and 24% of residents who attended hall or campus experiences strongly agreed these events were meaningful.
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Between 3 and 7.
What is the average attendance at a weekly tradition? The average number of residents that attended a weekly tradition ranged from 0 to 14, but 67.58% of communities averaged between 3 and 7 residents per weekly tradition and 24.02% had over 8 residents attend on average. 13.52% had 2 people or less attend on a weekly basis. The highest number of residents that attended a weekly tradition averaged at 15 and ranged from 4 to 35. The majority of RAs (63.15%) reported the highest number of residents that attended between 10 and 20. The lowest number of residents that attended a weekly tradition ranged from 0 to 8, but 52.63% of RAs said the lowest number of residents that attended was 0
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This person helped meet resident's expectations.
Who is the RA? “My RA has been a great influence on me and roommate has added to my college experience.” “My RA was very outgoing and planned a lot of floor traditions.”
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RAs were least prepared for this part of the community development model?
What is Conversation #2?
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96% of residents had at least one of these with their RA.
What is a conversation? 84% agreed that the conversations were meaningful to them, and 43% strongly agreed that their conversations were meaningful. 16% did not believe that those conversations held any meaning.
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True or false: 57% of students shared that they generally felt connected to their floor community.
True
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These lasted on average 41 minutes each time they occurred.
What is a weekly tradition? On average, RA weekly traditions lasted 41 minutes each week. The majority (74.36%) of weekly traditions longer than 30 minutes each week each week (10.26% lasted 15-20 minutes, 15.38% lasted 21-30 minutes, 17.95% lasted 31-45 minutes, 38.46% lasted 45 min to an hour, and 17.95% lasted longer than 1 hour).
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Residents expect these two things when living in the Residence Halls.
What is: Positive Relationships (making friends) “Becoming close friends with my roommates. Meeting new people. Getting involved.” “Being good friends with every single person on the floor.” “Having a lot of friends and fun times meeting a lot of people.” Positive Living Environment. “Clean, quiet, a place to come home after classes without a lot of distractions.” “A place to sleep. Clean, safe. “Having a safe place to live in, having a comfortable place.
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These people were identified as a being incredibly helpful in navigating 1:1 conversations and providing additional training.
Who is the RHD? RAs also mentioned that the following things were helpful: entering conversations into SharePoint, sample questions, hearing from other RAs, having experience as an RA (being a returner, having programming experience), the calendar, reading the guides, training about purpose, and training hard skills. A few RAs mentioned that they did not feel like training on how to have conversations was necessary because that is a skill everyone should have.
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How to live with others, Relating to individuals with different identities, and Interpersonal Growth.
What are the top 3 things students say they learned by living in the residence halls? “I have learned to live on my own, but also with someone else. I have matured and become more of an adult by living away from home and living with a roommate has given me support because I always know she is there for whatever I need.” “I learned a lot about different kinds of people and social justice.” “I learned a lot about how to live independently. It was kind of a shock at first living without my parents, but because of how connected our floor was, I got through it.”
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82% of sophomores in the residence halls agreed they were connected to this type of group.
What is an outside organization/community?
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Food, Dinner, Video Games, Crafts, Sports
What are successful and simple weekly traditions?
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Meaningful conversations with peers were held by these people during the year.
Who are residents?
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"Be yourself, relax, don't worry too much about the structure of the model and force interactions."
What is advice from returning RAs?
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Relationships, Staff, Environment, Events/Traditions, Personal Actions
What are factors that helped meet resident's expectations?
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Residents learned about themselves by doing this.
What is interacting with others who are different?
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92% for approximately 17 minutes.
What is the percent and length of 'Who Are You?' conversations? 'Who are you becoming':76% of their residents for approximately 14 minutes 'Who have you become':70% of their residents for approximately 11 minutes
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89% of residents agreed that their RA had what?
What is made an effort to get to know them. Of that, individuals selected that they strongly agreed (52%) that their RA made an effort to get to know them.
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RAs felt "uncomfortable doing this for fear that they were "invading their resident's privacy," breaching "confidentiality," and acting in an "inauthentic" way.
What is tracking or writing down details of their conversation. However, on the positive side, the vast majority (85%) of RAs "moderately agreed" or "strongly agreed" that their RHD maintained confidentiality about what was in their tracking document.
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Based on their experience living in the residence halls, residents believe these are the most important qualities of a positive community. (identify 3)
What are: Respect, Communication, people, friendliness
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RAs spent an average of 10-20 minutes preparing for this.
What are weekly traditions?