Residential Life and Housing Services should create a student advisory board to communicate with residence coordinators, as per a Campus Council recommendation last week.
Currently students can give feedback to their resident advisers and RAs can review the RCs, but there is no mechanism by which students can communicate with RCs in an official capacity. As a result, many students see RCs merely as disciplinary figures—a notion that RLHS should work to change.
Student advisory committees would benefit both students and RCs. It would provide an outlet for students to voice their concerns about residential life and at the same time allow the students to better understand the role the RCs play in their residential experiences.
These committees would be particularly helpful in delineating disciplinary policies and procedures—an area which has been plagued by a lack of communication.
Since RCs and students are suppose to be part of the same residential system, they should have adequate communication in order to provide a safe and satisfying residential experience.
These committees are especially important because in the past RLHS has done things without proper student input or feedback. This trend should be changed, and RLHS can begin by instituting a student advisory committee and increasing communication between students and RCs.
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