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Personality correlates of resident assistant effectiveness
… charac teristics and other predictors, and resident assistant effectiveness. Procedures: The sample included eight male and eleven female volunteers selected for RA positions at Drake University in Spring 1981. Predictors were Personality Research Form, Form AA subscales, job referecces, …
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An Exploration of Current Practices in Curricular Design of Resident Assistant Training Programs
… has been little research about the design of resident assistant (RA) training programs in higher education (Bowman & Bowman, 1995, 1998; Wesolowski, Bowman, & Adams, 1996). A RA is an enrolled student who is selected, trained, and supervised to serve as a part-time, paraprofessional employee …
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The Resident Assistant as Paraprofessional Counselor and Crisis Interventionist: A Study of Lived Experience
… groups of paraprofessional helpers are resident assistants, undergraduate students trained to work with students living on campus who present with counseling or crisis intervention needs. </p><p>The concerns students bring to resident assistants are often beyond the scope of their …
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Resident Assistant Motivations to Seek The Position: A Comparison Between Generations X and Y
College administrators have been in the business of employing students as RAs or an equivalent position for many years. Over those many years, the students and the type of students hired for this position changed. Once again, it is time for a generational change. Gen Y students are currently …
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Am I the Leader? Resident Assistant's Assessment of Roles and Training
… focuses on developinng community skills is the residential department. A Resident Assistant (RA) is a student who works in the residence halls. RAs must understand four skill areas in order to be effective in their job performance: Leadership, communication, administrative, and problem solving. …
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A study on the reliability of selection judgments made by committees interviewing resident advisor applicants
… derived from applicant responses to the Resident Assistant Stress Inventory and the Cooperative Institutional those offered training in that they tended to have been at the institution for a shorter period of time, to express more anxiety about situations that involved a conflict between …
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"I'm not your Mammy": Unearthing the Racially Gendered Experiences of Undergraduate Black Women Resident Assistants at Predominantly White Institutions
… describes and explores undergraduate Black women Resident Assistant (RA) experiences in the context of Predominantly White Institutions (PWI). While serving in the capacities of both student and student affairs professional, this study explored how women navigate the responsibilities of their role …
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Understanding the experience of being a peer advisor in the freshman interest groups program at the University of Missouri
… are co-enrolled in four courses. By combining residential and academic initiatives the program helps approximately 2,000 firstyear students transition from high school to the university each year. The FIGs program employs more than 100 undergraduate Peer Advisors (PAs) to assist students in …
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A Comparison of Perceptions Among Resident Assistants and Professional Residence Life Staff Regarding Conflict Mediation
… of literature written on conflict mediation and Resident Assistant (RA) training. This literature not only helps to define what each area is, but it provides readers with the knowledge necessary to become skilled in mediation or to effectively design training programs to educate students employed …
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Exploring Resident Assistants' Demonstration of Socially Responsible Leadership
… leadership skills among college students. The Resident Assistant (RA) represents a pivotal student leadership role on campus-but it is not the only way for students to assume an influential and skills-building leadership role. Other student leaders (OSLs), encompassed herein under the umbrella …
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Resident advisers' perceptions of their mandatory reporting status under Title IX: How they can help survivors
<p>This study investigates resident advisers’ (RAs) perceptions of their mandatory reporter status required under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). As a mandatory reporter, RAs must report any known-to-them sexual misconduct. This requirement to report can be very complicated …