After being involved in Emmanuel College’s academic community for my first semester, it has become evident that my desire to become a Residential Assistant derives from my hope to go into higher education in the coming years. Working in the Registrar’s Office and Academic Resource Center, ARC, I have learned how student social and academic interactions affect one another hand in hand. After learning more about how RAs function in the Residence Halls from Maria Murphy, who talked with me about her higher education background as Assistant Registrar, I realized that my experience in leadership facilitation through the Student Leadership Training Program (SLTP) and Rotary Youth Services will make a positive impact on future Emmanuel residences.
Not only have I applied all 147 leadership skills in my workplaces, but I have also worked collaboratively in teams ranging in size from five while coordinating conferences to 35 when I lead most of the Rotary Next Generation …show more content…
In order to deal with these learning inhibitors, I would sit down with each person involved in a situation rather than simply hearing one side. With bullying, I would work with residence on how to be proactive and how not to react negatively. Peer pressure has been a pressing issue most likely since before residence halls existed, but to address this on my floor I would make sure that during room assignments, I would research each student to find out who they would be the least likely to peer pressure within range of their room; this may sound like a lofty goal, but we were able to accomplish this with Next Generations and RYLA room assignments during those conferences. Academic stress would be confronted by offering students with resources such as study nights in the lounge or one night per semester ‘walk in tutor by RA’ hours similar to how the ARC has walk in writing most of the week after
Not only have I applied all 147 leadership skills in my workplaces, but I have also worked collaboratively in teams ranging in size from five while coordinating conferences to 35 when I lead most of the Rotary Next Generation …show more content…
In order to deal with these learning inhibitors, I would sit down with each person involved in a situation rather than simply hearing one side. With bullying, I would work with residence on how to be proactive and how not to react negatively. Peer pressure has been a pressing issue most likely since before residence halls existed, but to address this on my floor I would make sure that during room assignments, I would research each student to find out who they would be the least likely to peer pressure within range of their room; this may sound like a lofty goal, but we were able to accomplish this with Next Generations and RYLA room assignments during those conferences. Academic stress would be confronted by offering students with resources such as study nights in the lounge or one night per semester ‘walk in tutor by RA’ hours similar to how the ARC has walk in writing most of the week after