Overview
Pillars
Educational Strategies
Theories
Staff Responsibilities
100

The short abbreviation for Residential Curriculum. 

What is a Res Cur?

100

The four pillars.

What is Community, Personal Development, Belonging & Wellness, and Global Responsibility?

100

Printed or handmade decorations that are given to the residents and serve as the first impression residents have of their floor and residential communities.

What are Door Decorations?

100

Students must have their basic needs, like safety, belonging, and well-being, met before they can fully engage and thrive in college.

What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

100

The primary community builder within your floor and residential community.

What is the Resident Assistant?

200

An educational plan that is intentional and sequenced.

What is a Residential Curriculum?

200

A deeper understanding of oneself by engaging in self-discovery and exploring their identities, values, and purpose. (tip: include in your answer if this is a definition or learning objective)

What is the definition of the Personal Development pillar?

200

An educational strategy that supports the Personal Development pillar.

What are Panther Chats?

200

All students experience transitions, whether starting college, changing majors, or graduating. By understanding what students are going through and offering support, we can help them navigate change with confidence and resilience.

What is Schlossberg's Transition Theory? 

200

RAs should be [blank] with the student experience.

What is intentional?

300

Provide spaces where students continue to learn inside and outside the classroom.

What is Housing & Residential Experience?

300

Collaborate in addressing shared challenges to promote a positive living environment. (tip: include in your answer if this is a definition or learning objective)

What is a Community learning objective?

300

An educational strategy that supports this learning objective: Collaborate in addressing shared challenges to promote a positive living environment.

What are Roommate Agreements?

300

The more time and energy students invest in their college experience, academically, socially, and emotionally, the more they gain from it.

What is Astin's Student Involvement Theory? 

300

The main RA responsibility with Res Cur educational strategies.

What is implementation?

400

Intentional, Goal/Outcome-Focused, and Sequenced.

What are the components of a Residential Curriculum?

400

Utilize interpersonal skills that promote meaningful connections with peers and the community. (tip: include in your answer if this is a definition or learning objective)

What is a Belonging & Wellness learning objective?

400

This educational strategy allows residents to gain a deeper understanding of living in a residence hall and RAs will guide residents in a discussion on housing policy, university resources and community guidelines.

What is a [Opening] Community Floor Meeting? 

400

A student’s development is shaped by the multiple environments they interact with, from roommates and campus life to family and societal influences. 

What is Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory? 

400

RAs read this document to guide and inform their educational strategy implementation.

What is a Departmental Lesson Plan?

500

Provide opportunities for our students to become leaders serving the local and global communities.

What is HRE's Educational Priority?

500

Participation in a learning environment, where students can reflect on the impact of their actions within the residential community and on a local & global scale to effect positive change. (tip: include in your answer if this is a definition or learning objective)

What is the definition of the Global Responsibility pillar?

500

Participating in a Hall Council supports this pillar.

What is Belonging & Wellness?

500

The four types of Student Development Theories. (125 point for each type you can name)

What is Psychosocial, Cognitive-structural, Person-environment, and Humanistic existential? 

500

The final step of an educational strategy outlined in the Departmental Lesson Plan. 

What is assessment?