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Residence Life & Housing

Building Lasting Communities of Learning

Redlands students place a high priority on creating a genuine sense of community in our residence halls.

Hall staff members and other student leaders play a pivotal role in planning hall activities and programs that encourage you to grapple with social and intellectual challenges.

The Community Standards Process challenges all of our students to facilitate and evaluate what they want their own communities to be. Hall staff do many social and educational programs, and resident-initiated programming is also always encouraged and desired.

Each Residence Hall Community consists of a number of staff members who work to ensure that the communities are running smoothly and that our students feel safe to be themselves, explore their identities, and learn and grow together.

Student Staff

Community Assistants live on each floor and are responsible for community development, programming and policy enforcement. They are undergraduate students who are trained in helping skills, crisis management, community-building and student development. These students are on duty in their communities from 7pm-7am every day to assist students, build relationships, and respond to crises.

Community Directors are Junior or Senior students who are responsible for the day-to-day management of their communities and the supervision of the Community Assistants. They receive advanced training in leadership theory, supervision and crisis management.

Professional Staff

Residence Hall Coordinators are graduate student professioanls who are responsible for the day-to-day management of their residence halls, supervision of the Community Assistants, facilitation of the Student Conduct Process, and a number of other responsibilities within our department. They are also pursuing their master's degrees in Business or Higher Education Administration.

Residence Hall Directors are professional staff members who supervise Community Directors, in addition to the other responsibilities of our RHCs. A member of the professional staff of RHCs and RHDs is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to assist with crisis management and emergencies.

The department is led by the Assistant Dean of Residence Life and Housing and the Associate Director of Residence Life and Housing. These professional staff members oversee the operations of the departments and supervise the professional staff members.