2. About Me
- Senior at Knox College
- She/her/her
- SDM in Media Studies and minor
in Business & Management with a
Marketing focus
- Served as a first year RA my
sophomore year
- Took junior year off to study
abroad in New Zealand
- Came back my senior year to
serve as an upperclassmen
apartment RA
- Applied to grad school for IMC

3. Moving From First Years to Upperclassmen
- Programming changes
- Upperclassmen need more career and life help, not where to find CHEM 101
- Different resident/living problems
- Your residents choose to live with each other
- Information to needed resource
- More passive techniques
- Will search you out if they need you
- Authority
- Go from mentoring younger adults to peers
- Residents to friends
- Responsibilities
- Closet, work orders, vacuum
- Time commitment

4. ICEBREAKER!!!(Are you surprised? Come on this is ISRAA, you really shouldn’t be!)

5. Icebreaker
- No talking!
- Find people that have the same birthday month
- Line yourselves up numerically within each month

6. Challenges
- Authority complex
- Posters, notes, and glass
- Weird group of residents
- Friends/Brothers/Sisters
- “Immunity”
- Information source
- Policing Issues
- Parties, elevator, fire extinguisher, breathing air
- Campus Life supervising changes
- New member of CLO
- Supervising shifts
- Mandated reporting
- Campus Safety - RA - Administration
miscommunications

7. Workshop

8. Building Communities
- Creating an environment of trust and mutual respect
- Approach problems and respect space
- Repetition
- Keep giving out contact information
- Consistency
- Don’t change answers for different people
- Reachability and approachability
- Answer in a timely fashion
- Be in communication regularly
- Face-to-face time
- Meet all of your residents - all 110!
- Positive relationship with Campus Safety
- Extra rounds

9. Questions?