When you welcome new staff members it can be very similar to welcoming new students. Their first impressions of the department and of campus often stick with them throughout their [...]

Yesterday, I successfully completed my first Residence Hall Closing as a Residence Director. I remember closing weekend as an RA and the craziness of filling out hundreds of RCRs, [...]

I have less then 30 days until my building closes and my first year as graduate student ends. In class, we learn that development and student growth informs almost all of our pract[...]

In Housing and Residence Life at Shippensburg University we require our resident assistants to complete a series of Continuing Education Workshops that focus around Ernest Boyer[...]

Two weeks ago, the East Coast got hit with Winter Storm Jonas. I’ve grown up on the East Coast my whole life and usually when meteorologists predict a wild storm, the storm u[...]

As 2016 comes in full swing and the new academic semester approaches, I have been thinking a lot about my first semester as a supervisor. I will start this post with a disclaimer: [...]

Well today officially marks the last day of classes! As Finals Week and Closing quickly approaches, I can’t help but feel reflective on my first full semester as a Residence [...]

As many of you know, September is Suicide Awareness month. Back in August, a few RDs and I came together and we discussed what we could do about it! After some thought, we decided [...]

Over the past four to five years, I have spent an incredible amount of time in a Residence Hall. A Residence Hall has arguably been my home away from home for almost half a decade [...]

Hello friends and welcome to the Emerging SA Pro Series! My name is Alexandria Honsberger and I just started my first year as a Residence Director at Shippensburg University in Pen[...]