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Personnel
shifts planned for fall Residential assistants and hall directors are on the move across campus as transfers, new hires and personnel shifts are planned for the fall semester, said Russell Elleven, associate director of Residential Life. But the number of changes planned for the fall are not unusual, he said. “We’ve hired one new hall director and 28 new RAs, and there were eight transfer requests granted,” Elleven said. “That’s about normal for a fall semester.” Naunie Mead, hall director for Colby Hall keeps track of RA requests to move and is involved in the hiring process. She attributed most transfer requests to openings in the Tom Brown/Pete Wright Apartment Community. “Every year RAs request to be transferred, especially to the Tom Brown/Pete Wright complex,” Mead said. “This year, of the eight requested transfers, four were to openings in Tom Brown, so it’s really not a large number of changes.” Wiggins Hall in Worth Hills will have a 100 percent turnover in staff for the fall. Mead said that while a completely new staff can impact the residents of a hall, the culture of a residence hall is maintained mostly by the residents who live there, not so much by the staff. “As a hall director, when you build a staff you consider the type of residents you have and make sure that the staff members you choose are a good fit with your residents,” she said. “In Colby, I have mostly fun-loving, active freshmen, so I don’t necessarily choose RAs like the residents, but ones that will work well with them.” Megan Clawson, a senior RA in Foster said that the timing of staff changes is important and that many times the fall semester brings major changes across campus. “When it comes at the end of the school year like it is for Wiggins Hall, a completely new staff isn’t that stressful for residents,” she said. Especially in this case, since Wiggins is not at full occupancy right now, and typically many students change dorms at the end of the spring semester anyway.” Kami
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