Oh hey! Welcome to the community! We are pleased to announce Jaime Williams, Assistant Director of Residential Life and Housing for Assessment at Virginia Commonwealth University, as our keynote speaker for our 2022 User Conference. In her keynote address titled Leading With Equity In Assessment, Jaime will discuss how combining a focus on inclusive student…

Oh hey! Welcome to the community! What’s in a name? When it comes to eRezLife, there’s so much more than what you might expect! While the software was developed by residence life professionals for residence life professionals, more clients outside of the field of residence life are using the same features to work for them.…

Oh, hey! Welcome to the community. Have you ever noticed that Residence Life programs often think about numbers on a large scale: dozens of meetings each week, hundreds of processes to track, thousands of students to serve throughout the years, millions of dollars to manage? The breadth of scope can make it easy to dismiss…

Oh hey! Welcome to the community. We’ll say it: the last couple of years have been tough for Residence Life and Housing professionals. It’s been hard enough just dealing with the daily challenges of the job, and the complications heaped on top by the pandemic. But when you’re grappling with frustrating software, or hunting for…

On most campuses, staff selection is a cyclical process that iterates slightly differently each year. We’ve curated a number of blog posts and resources to help you as you work through your hiring and selection process.

Oh, hey!  Welcome to the community. Staff selection can be a daunting administrative task. Not only do you need to collect and manage many applications and multiple processes, but you need to follow up on those applications. Candidates need to be evaluated and ranked, interviews need to be scheduled, references collected, and input from the…

We just covered why to use rubrics. We’ve discussed how the impact of biases (cognitive or not) can be reduced by the strategic use of rubrics. So, now let’s talk about how to create rubrics.