What are Resident Assistants?
• Resident Assistants (RAs) are student leaders that are employed by OCH to assist the Resident Directors and help maintain the residence halls. • Each RA is responsible for an area of their assigned residence hall and are required to hold programs that enrich the campus experience for their residents. • The RA is there to help all students with any problem that they may have.
Resident assistants (RAs) are college students, usually upperclassmen, who take on the responsibility of living in the dormitories or residence halls with students and acting as student supervisors. Resident assistants are each assigned one floor or section of a floor in a residence hall, with a set number of student residents in their charge. Resident assistants usually take their position as a part time job or to help with tuition expenses, but the job is not for everyone. Resident assistants have specific duties including, but not limited to, supervision of the residents in the dorm, overseeing activities, counseling and encouraging residents, enforcing rules and curfews, encouraging housekeeping and peacemaking, crisis management, and keeping order among the residents. Resident assistants have sometimes been given derogatory nicknames such as the “dorm police” or “tattle tales,” so the job requires a certain level of maturity and thick skin. Resident assistants are also known as st
