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…

Roommate agreements serve to start a conversation and introduce the RA as the first point of contact when things start to go sideways. It’s our role as educators to help students understand how to proactively and effectively address current and potential problems to reduce harm.

How meaningful would it be to have a sense of control when it comes to residence room selection? It can be overwhelming or intimidating to consider a move to online room selection. We can appreciate that you may see the value of online room selection, but you need to convince stakeholders of the value.

In order to be successful as an occupancy manager, you need to leverage your data for your stakeholders. The success of occupancy managers is determined by their ability to leverage their occupancy data and make it accessible for stakeholders. By thinking beyond what is wrong and where the vacancies or voids exist, occupancy managers can create opportunities for greater student satisfaction and retention.

Occupancy Managers often do not get the attention and praise they deserve. They manage a large amount of data and details that directly impact student satisfaction. This blog post is going to dive deeper into this debate around the value of an occupancy report versus that of a vacancy report.