The 2024 ACUHO-I One Institute will provide housing and residence life professionals with knowledge, skills, and strategies to navigate the current economic, social, and political climate. The two-day event aims to empower attendees to advance in their careers and succeed in the ever-evolving landscape of higher education.
Topic Areas:
- Economic Mobility and Career Advancement for Housing and Residence Life (HRL) Professionals
- Economic Mobility and Career Advancement for Housing and Residence Life (HRL) Professionalsrefers to the opportunities and pathways that enable individuals working in housing and residence life roles within educational institutions to improve their economic status and progress in their careers. This includes: Salary Growth, Professional Development, Career Pathways, Equity and Inclusion
- The Impact of World Conflict on HRL
- The Impact of World Conflict on Housing and Residence Life refers to how global conflicts, such as wars, political unrest, and international tensions, affect the operation, environment, and community within campus housing and residence life. This impact can be seen in several ways including staff well-being, community dynamics, operational challenges, policy and procedure adjustment, programming and support, staff training and development
- The Impact of World Conflict on Housing and Residence Life refers to how global conflicts, such as wars, political unrest, and international tensions, affect the operation, environment, and community within campus housing and residence life. This impact can be seen in several ways including staff well-being, community dynamics, operational challenges, policy and procedure adjustment, programming and support, staff training and development
- Navigating Workplace Dynamics
- Navigating Workplace Dynamics in Housing and Residence Life refers to understanding, managing, and optimizing interpersonal relationships, communication, and organizational behavior within the housing and residence life departments of educational institutions. This encompasses several key aspects including interpersonal relationships, communication, power dynamics, leadership and management, organizational culture, change management, work-life balance, ethical practices, performance management, generational differences, identity, and inclusion
Additional topics as defined by the ACUHO-I Future of the Profession:
- Learning as an Organization: To center the work of campus housing departments within operational learning, housing professionals must understand their university’s mission, learning goals, and strategic priorities, as well as be able to articulate how their department’s work aligns with these characteristics and contributes to students’ overall learning and development
- Enabling Workforce Sustainability: A sustainable workforce exists to the extent to which the work environment supports, by practice (policy and procedure), healthy, well, and engaged members of the workforce who are highly skilled, competent, and able to perform successfully
- Increasing Belonging: Utilizing models to articulate values, pinpoint essential skills, establish processes, enhance practices, and refine organizational structures. How housing and residence life can address challenges, identify inequalities, create new approaches
- Strengthening Mental Health: Support from student affairs and housing departments for student and staff mental health and well-being
- Fostering Strategic Collaborations: Striving to identify partners to help develop business operations, enhance the community, provide efficiencies, and improve service
- Shifting the Higher Education Business Model: Re-evaluating business models including value propositions, staffing, profit formulas, resources, offerings, and key processes. Identify new ways of generating revenue to enable opportunities to increase funds for mission-driven initiatives such as combatting student housing and food insecurity, supporting mental health concerns, and others
- Championing Facility Design & Maintenance: Finding the ways and means to deliver the space, features, and amenities that students expect while also limiting the fiscal impact on both the institution and the students who call the business home
- Communicating Campus Housing’s Value: Communicating the value and outcomes of projects, programs, and practices. Redefining and strategically communicating the return on investment of the traditional campus experience and ensuring it aligns with institutional goals and new definitions of affordability
Featured Speakers
Opening Keynote
Deepa Iyer
Deepa Iyer, a social movement advocate, is the Senior Director at Building Movement Project. She focuses on solidarity practices, post-9/11 policies, civil rights, and Asian American/South Asian community histories. Iyer has authored books, hosts the podcast “Solidarity Is This,” and received fellowships and awards for her work. Originally from India, she is involved in grassroots organizing and holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame Law School and Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Dar Mayweather
Dar Mayweather, founder of doingthegoodwork.com, is a leadership studies faculty member at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He assists individuals in bridging intentions and actions, focusing on inclusive leadership and cultural identity intersections. As a speaker, he aids in overcoming inclusion fears through trust-building activities. His coaching helps students secure jobs and gain admission to graduate school. He attributes his success to training institutes and programs like SJTI.org, University of Michigan’s Program on Intergroup Relations, and Dr. Eric Thomas’s Game Changers Speaker Certification Program.