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Dates:
April 12-16, 2025

Venue:
Houw Hoek Hotel, Grabouw, Cape Town

Hosted by:
University of Cape Town

Co-directors:
Derek Jackson (Kansas State University) and Lanché van Tonder (University of Pretoria)

ACUHO-I Core Curriculum

As experts in the housing and residence life profession, ACUHO-I focuses on skills and competencies critical to the success of housing operations. From the ACUHO-I Core Curriculum, the Association has identified several key global learning outcomes that guide the content selection for cross-border initiatives. These include: 

  • Foundations: Philosophy & Values. Articulate the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of student affairs, and how those broader underpinnings are currently reflected in the state-of-practice in housing and residence life at their home institutions.  
  • Foundations: Intro to Student Development. Adapt and transfer concepts about how students develop to best impact the growth of residents through policy, program, and practice decisions at their home institutions.  
  • Residence Education/Life. Identify how housing and residence life can offer educational programming and support student leaders and groups to facilitate the development of the whole student through the residential setting.  
  • Occupancy Management. Integrate the concepts of recruitment, marketing, forecasting and trend-identification to facilitate the best- practices in occupancy management.  
  • Budget/Finance. Enhance understanding of budget and finance skills as used as a planning and goal-setting document that reflects the mission of the housing operation within the broader institutional framework.  
  • Supervision. Cultivate coaching and other skills in supervision to enhance the management, appraisal, and retention of a strong, well-functioning staff team.  
  • Facilities. Establish skills in best practice management of housing facilities to make the physical environment attractive, conducive to academic success and other developmental growth opportunities, assists in building community, and is fully functional for the safe and healthy living of residents.  
  • Crisis Management. Manage risk and respond to crisis situations that may occur in the residential setting in housing operations.  
  • Assessment. Deploy assessment strategies that measures impact of housing and residence life on students and provides a framework for continuous improvement of programs and services. 
  • Policy Development. Develop policy that provides for the impactful, safe, and efficient operation of housing and residence life experiences.  
  • Professional Competency. Using the ACUHO-I Core Competencies as a model, identify areas in which additional competency development is needed to be the most effective as an individual housing and residence life professional. 
  • Professional Identity. Cultivate an identity as a housing and residence life professional and expand an industry-specific professional network. 

For more information, please contact LvT@up.ac.za