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Direct linkBoone, Katherine B. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2018
The sources of work motivation for resident assistants have received little attention in the literature over the last decade. As the role grows more complex and more expectations are added to the RA position, determining what current factors motivate students to apply for the RA position is essential. This study presents quantitative research to…
Descriptors: Resident Advisers, Student Motivation, Statistical Analysis, Helping Relationship
Kissel, Adam – Academic Questions, 2010
What's wrong with the sustainability movement, the author contends, is the uncritical homogenization of humanity. Sustainability advocates inevitably seek to homogenize people's deepest values, because their goal is to save Earth from ecological, economic, and social disaster. Everyone must participate--everyone must share the same key values and…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Authoritarianism
Kissel, Adam – Academic Questions, 2009
The University of Delaware has a zero-tolerance policy for anything remotely resembling "hate speech." As such, the school implemented a mandatory training for all 7,000-odd students in its dorms. The sessions were part of a thorough thought-reform curriculum, designed by the school's Office of Residence Life, psychologically to…
Descriptors: Resident Advisers, Zero Tolerance Policy, Universities, Educational Policy
Download full textAmerican Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2009
This guide briefly retraces the rise of ideologically charged residential life programming on campuses and shows how such programs, despite their seemingly innocuous goals, in fact undercut the principles of rational inquiry that are foundational to the academic enterprise. In the fall of 2007, one university conducted a program for all 7,000…
Descriptors: Dormitories, College Housing, Student Rights, Trustees
Kerr, Kathleen G.; Tweedy, James – About Campus, 2006
As residential institutions summon greater resources and seek new strategies to encourage civic engagement, character building, and citizenship development among students, they too often overlook a potentially powerful asset. Residence halls, physically designed to provide students with direct access to personal differences and multiple occasions…
Descriptors: Dormitories, College Students, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education
Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
The University of Delaware spent years refining its residence-life education program. One week of public criticism unraveled it. Late last month, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a free-speech group, accused the university of promoting specific views on race, sexuality, and morality in a series of discussions held in dormitories.…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Student Diversity, Dormitories, Sexual Identity
