What's an R.A.?
The Resident Assistant Team, better known as the R.A.s, will guide you through an informed and enjoyable life in residence. They are students who live and work in your residence. They share your concerns about classes, grades, and campus life, but have expanded that interest by taking an active role in helping other students. Your R.A.s will get to know and support the students in your residence and work with everyone to build a positive living environment. They help everyone get acquainted, answer questions, post information, assist with problems, plan activities, and uphold policies and rules. R.A.s are familiar with campus resources and have developed strong referral skills.
The main responsibilities of the R.A.s are:
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to be available;
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to welcome and orient students to residence;
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to offer basic peer counseling to residents on issues of academic or personal concern and to make referrals when necessary;
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to act as an information source;
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to facilitate programming and opportunities for residents to become involved;
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to ensure that the rights and needs of all residents are respected and upheld;
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to assist with emergencies;
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to reflect residents' concerns to Residence and Conference Services;
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to provide leadership in areas relevant to community living, such as human relations, conflict management, and mutual respect.
What's a T.C.?
Each of the four building areas on campus (Mackinnon, Norton/Pollack, Abbott/Kuehner, and Munster/Paterson) have a Team Coordinator (T.C.). The T.C.s have at least one year of R.A. experience under their belts and assume a leadership role for the R.A.s in their building areas. The main responsibilities of the T.C.s are:
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to perform their R.A. responsibilities;
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to act as a resource for teammates on the basis of past experience;
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to facilitate communication among teammates;
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to ensure the general administrative requirements of residence are carried out;
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to coordinate the R.A.'s activities in his/her building area.
Your R.A.s have not been randomly selected or thrown into their positions without direction. RAs are part-time student-employees of the University who have been through a thorough selection process and have completed a training program designed to provide them with a basic understanding of the experiences and pressures you will face over the next eight months.
Your R.A.s are students who have enjoyed their time in residence, who have appreciated the efforts of their own R.A.s, and who now wish to give back to the residence life program. We hope you'll feel the same way too, and encourage you to watch for information on R.A. hiring for the following year.
Residence and Conference Services
Team
Debbie Langford
Director of Residence and Conference Services
The Director is responsible for the overall operation of Bishop's University Residence and Conference Services. Her priority is to ensure that all residents gain the maximum educational, lifestyle and personal benefits from living in residence. She is also responsible for food services throughout the campus, budget supervision and long-term planning for the improvement and expansion of services and facilities.
Monique Lafaille
Customer Service
Assistant
Justina Browne
Administrative Services Coordinator
Our Customer Service Counter is open during business hours (8:30 a.m. -
4:30 p.m.) Monday through Friday. Questions and transactions relating to residence applications, room allocations and transfers, meal plans, student I.D.s, convenience points for photocopying, etc., are handled through our service counter. Feel free to stop by with your questions or just to chat - we welcome your opinions and ideas!
Bronwyn Coates Bonney
Residence Life Coordinator: Mackinnon, Munster, Paterson
Thomas John Page
Residence Life Coordinator: Norton, Pollack, Abbott, Kuehner
The two R.L.C.s report directly to the Director and work closely with the
Team Coordinators and Residence Assistants to help facilitate the educational and social programs offered in residence. The R.L.C.s, the Director and Security work together to
uphold the Residence Community Living Standards and
ensure safety in residence.
Marcia Boisvert
Director of Conferences
Annie Lavarière
Conference Coordinator
During the summer months, the university opens its doors to a wide variety of groups catering to all ages including executive training programs, church and sports groups (to mention a few), thus occupying residences, classrooms, lounges and sports facilities which would otherwise be relatively dormant during the Spring and Summer sessions.
Although the business period for Conference Services is summer, they do book non academic spaces, and oversee catering events in addition to marketing and planning for the following summer season(s).
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