Oh hey!  Welcome to the eRezLife community. It’s almost time!  The 2024 User Conference is less than a week away and we want to make sure you’re feeling prepared and excited for the experience! Let’s Go! Tiffany Conde, our amazing Senior Manager of Customer Experience and conference chair, offered some tips to help you feel…

In the ever-evolving world of housing and residence life, ensuring smooth and efficient housing assignments is important to fostering a thriving residential community. As university housing offices strive to provide students with the best possible living experience, streamlining housing assignments can serve as a critical task.  Today’s competitive landscape puts universities under increasing pressure to…

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.

Rubrics are not easy to create yet are an essential tool to reduce bias and create a more consistent, representative hiring cycle.

Three realities alive on campuses today limit our ability to act meaningfully. First, the topic of race/racism is often superficially engaged with, and sometimes avoided altogether. Second, very few institutions gather meaningful data about the lived experiences of their racialized students, staff, and faculty. Third, experiences of racism are often recorded as isolated anecdotes or incidents, with little to no formal structures to investigate if/how these experiences permeate the culture of the institution. How can we disrupt the status quo?

eRezLife Software and Skyfactor, a Macmillan Learning Company, announced a new partnership, which brings together Skyfactor’s student affairs and residence life assessment expertise and eRezLife Software’s diverse and comprehensive data collection capabilities and knowledge of student housing and residence life processes. The partnership will focus on delivering joint materials to student housing and residence life professionals, to help them communicate the value of their efforts to their various constituents.

eRezLife’s new consulting services are now available to support your programs and institution in ways that you have never seen before. Our consultants have extensive industry knowledge and can help overhaul your existing organizational structure, advise on developing or assessing your curricular approach, optimize your existing services, plus much, much more.