This past weekend I attended and presented at a conference focused on student leadership in college residential life. The Northeast Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls (NEACURH) hosted this conference in Syracuse, NY. It was a tremendous experience getting the chance to speak to and learn from over 400 other student leaders from New York, New England, and Canada. I attended sessions that looked at recruitment and retention of student leaders, student affairs professions, and attended a boardroom where over 50 presidents of Residential groups around the Northeast shared ideas and issues.
One great experience that I had at this conference was to actually present a program for other students. The program that I presented at NEACURH was about the Plus/Delta system. I have been utilizing as a review mechanism for the past year with the Resident Student Association and it has been extremely effective. This system is something that I first learned while working with PASA over the summer and I was not very interested in it at that time. But as I entered this school year and it was reintroduced in class, I began to use it and found it extremely helpful. It places students in a completely different mindset as they are reviewing an event or meeting. I am so glad that we discussed and have been utilizing this in class because it has split over into my professional life as RSA president and even as a presenter for a large residential life conference!
NEACURH: http://neacurh.nacurh.org
NEACURH Regional Conference: http://neacurhregionals2014.weebly.comNEACURH -
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