Critical Professional Praxis in Residence Life

The Queen’s Residence Energy Challenge (QREC) is an energy conservation initiative taking place in the residence halls at Queen’s University coordinated by the AMS Sustainability Office and the Sustainability Coordinator for Student Affairs . It is a two-part competition. Part one of the competition is an interresidence competition in which each residence hall will be competing to reduce their energy expenditures. Energy use will be compared to the corresponding time in the previous year, and the residence that reduces their energy use by the highest percentage will win the competition. This part of the project is being organized by members of the AMS Sustainability Office and the Sustainability Coordinator (Office of Student Affairs), and Residence Life staff and floor dons are helping execute it. The second part of the competition is an inter-university pledge drive, in which residents will be encouraged to sign a pledge stating that they will be participating in the QREC. Queen’s will be competing against the Universities of Waterloo and Guelph, and the school that has the highest percentage of residents participating will win a set of solar panels as a symbol of energy conservation and renewable energy. This part of the project is being coordinated by the Sierra Youth Coalition who has obtained funding from the Ontario Power Authority. The goals of the QREC are to reduce overall energy use in the residences, help students living in residence learn about their own energy consumption and ways to reduce it, and create a culture of sustainability at Queen’s. In this presentation I will go through the overall timeline of executing and planning the project, provide examples of ways to reduce energy consumption in residence, and provide results of both parts of the competition.

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Quality Circle Applications to Residence Life

NASPA Journal ◽

10.1080/00220973.1987.11072035 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 98-102

Author(s):

Robert J. Keller

Keyword(s):

Residence Life ◽

Quality Circle

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Library as Campus Main Street

Advances in Library and Information Science - Innovative Solutions for Building Community in Academic Libraries ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8392-1.ch014 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 269-291

Author(s):

Ingrid J. Ruffin ◽

Michelle H. Brannen ◽

Megan Venable

Keyword(s):

Academic Libraries ◽

Residence Life ◽

Campus Community ◽

University Of Tennessee ◽

Main Street ◽

The University

This chapter illustrates ways that academic libraries can engage with students to build and support campus communities. At the University of Tennessee Libraries, librarians seek opportunities for cultural enhancement of the campus community through creative outlets and activities that meet students in the spaces they frequent, both inside and outside the library. Librarians interact with students informally through contests and games, residence life programming, open houses, and street fairs that showcase the library as the campus main street.

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Psychological Heterogeneity Among Honors College Students

journal for the education of the gifted ◽

10.1177/0162353218781754 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 242-272 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Tracy L. Cross ◽

Jennifer Riedl Cross ◽

Sakhavat Mammadov ◽

Thomas J. Ward ◽

Kristie Speirs Neumeister ◽

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Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Big Five ◽

Online Survey ◽

Latent Profile Analysis ◽

Profile Analysis ◽

Residence Life ◽

Honors College ◽

Program Administrators ◽

Honors College Students

Greater knowledge of the psychology of honors college students will help to inform program administrators, counselors, residence life assistants, and faculty about how they may provide support to those with the greatest need. Via an online survey, personality, perfectionism, and suicidal ideation data were collected from honors college students ( N = 410, 73% female). Using latent profile analysis, students were classified by their responses to the Big Five Inventory personality measure into five profiles. Risk factors of high perfectionism and suicidal ideation scores were found in two of the profiles, suggesting students with these personality characteristics may need enhanced psychological support. The largest profile (35% of students) had extraversion scores above the norm, but all other profiles had introverted scores below the norm. Neuroticism scores were also higher than the norm in the introverted profiles, which represented a majority of the honors college students.

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Humility in Servant Leadership among Christian Student Leaders: A Longitudinal Pilot Study

Journal of Psychology and Theology ◽

10.1177/0091647118807177 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 46 (4) ◽

pp. 253-267 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Elizabeth J. Krumrei-Mancuso

Keyword(s):

Servant Leadership ◽

Student Leaders ◽

Residence Life ◽

Leadership Roles ◽

Leadership Positions ◽

Intellectual Humility ◽

Christian University ◽

Religious Identification ◽

Reported Data

The goal of the current research was to examine potential predictors and outcomes of servant leadership among beginning leaders with self-reported and other-reported data. Participants included 29 college student leaders within the Residence Life program of a Christian university who were assessed prior to beginning their leadership positions and six weeks into their leadership roles. Those who responded to the challenges of early leadership with greater interpersonal and intellectual humility displayed more servant leadership and associated characteristics over time. Specifically, variance in humility during the transition into leadership was predictive of more servant leadership, empathic concern, perspective-taking, and kindness toward subordinates six weeks later. These findings offer initial empirical evidence to support the vaster theoretical basis regarding the role of humility in servant leadership. In addition, variance in salience of religious belief during the transition into leadership predicted more interpersonal humility, servant leadership, and kindness to subordinates. This is particularly remarkable given the high levels of religiosity displayed within the sample from the start of the study. This indicates that leaders integrating religion into their lives to a greater extent predicts leader outcomes more so than do religious identification or initial levels of religiosity.

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