{"id":42,"date":"2013-05-23T18:49:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/?p=42"},"modified":"2013-07-22T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T18:00:02","slug":"summer-in-residence-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/2013\/05\/23\/summer-in-residence-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer in Residence Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/2013\/07\/02\/getting-to-know-us-jenni-chadick\/\">Jenni Chadick<\/a>, Assistant Director of Residence Life<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A question I often get is something along the lines of \u201cwhat do you do in the summer?\u201d It may be from students wondering if our office is open, or what my plans are for the summer, or genuine curiosity about the operations of a Residence Life department when we do not provide summer housing for students. It\u2019s a great question really. And there is a great answer: we prepare for the fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does a Res Life department really do over the summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finalize end of year reports<\/li>\n<li>Complete housing placements for incoming new students<\/li>\n<li>Notifying new students of their housing placements and how to prepare for move in<\/li>\n<li>Plan fall student staff training<\/li>\n<li>Train newly hired professional staff (such as Resident Directors)<\/li>\n<li>Attend professional development opportunities such as conferences or training seminars<\/li>\n<li>Revamp and update departmental initiatives such as our engagement model, theme houses, student leadership, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Vacation! The best time to take a vacation in Res Life is during the summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Summer in Residence Life is one of my favorite parts of my job &#8211; probably because I love big projects. In the summer there are less day to day interruptions, and more time to research, evaluate, and plan for the upcoming year. Our team assesses the challenges of the year and what lies ahead, and sets aside time to tackle these projects that are difficult to complete when students are on campus. Today alone I\u2019ve met with our department team about delegating summer projects, looked at staff placements for Residential Seminar programs, contacted a retreat center about booking our fall staff retreat, and polished off my end of year report for my supervisor. These projects range from fun (updating our training video on how to confront an alcohol policy) to meaningful (working to implement a stronger sexual assault response protocol), but all of the work is important in moving us forward. All the feedback we get during the year \u2013 about the ease of the move-in process, to how effective our training on suicide intervention is, to our storage guidelines for students, are examined closely to see if we can make changes and updates for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n<p>Gearing up for the upcoming year is always an exciting time on campus. So while it may be quiet on campus, if you really look you can see the great work being done campus wide to improve our structures and foundations \u2013 and I\u2019m not just talking about the construction of our new building!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jenni Chadick, Assistant Director of Residence Life A question I often get is something along the lines of \u201cwhat do you do in the summer?\u201d It may be from students wondering if our office is open, or what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/2013\/05\/23\/summer-in-residence-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/reslife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}