Some of you may read my personal blog. Some of you may not. So I will slightly repeat myself in this blog post. In my other blog, I decided to start fresh for 2012 and start blogging again. I have decided to do the same in this blog about residential life. The theme behind my personal blog is positivity. And positivity is also my New Year's resolution.
With that theme, I am doing a lot of goal setting and I wanted to blog about it. I always seem to write down goals and then lose that piece of paper. Or I will forget to look back on those goals. I thought that including my goals in my blog would allow me to easily look back and reflect on my goals.
As a new professional within Residential Life at my university, my time has been taken up by many things. This includes adjusting to this new institution, supervising and hold students accountable, and getting used to the professional life. Without thinking about it, I formed a few relationships with others outside of my department. However, now that I reflect on last semester, I feel that I could have done better in the relationship building department!
So far I have had the pleasure to connect with others in our New Student Services office, our police department and our University College. For 2012, I want to expand these relationships and create a stronger bond while also reaching out to other departments and offices. Here is a list of my goals for relationship building:
- Connect with New Student Services more this semester. I will be working with them this summer (Orientation is housed in my building all summer), and want to solidify that relationship before we get to caught up.
- Connect with more officers in our police department and reach out to those that could be resources for myself and students. Coming from a Criminal Justice background in undergrad, I feel that I have always loved connecting with the police at every institution.
- Build a better relationship with University College and those that I will work with. Currently, I only talk to University College when I have questions or need to give information about the students in one of my LLCs. I want to make sure to reach out more to this campus partner!
- Connect with the Women's Center this semester. I wish that I was able to build a relationship last semester, but I never had the chance. I am intrigued with our Women's Center and want to learn more about it and those that work in the center.
- Establish a relationship with Counseling services. I was so used to working so closely with counseling at my previous institution (for graduate school), and forgot to build a relationship here.
- Connect with our Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities. I have heard that one of the deans is great and student conduct is a passion of mine (not to mention career goal!).
- Update my resume before the end of February to reflect everything I have done since my job search.
- Research the current job descriptions and requirements for positions I would want in my next job or the job after. This way I can mold myself to be a better candidate and feel more competent in the positions to come.
- Better prepare my ACD (grad student) for a possible career in Student Affairs (he is thinking about it!) and provide him with more experience.
- Hold programs that I run (and not the RAs) for my buildings so residents get to know me better and feel more comfortable with me as a Community Director.
- Voice my ideas more. This can be in committees, with my supervisor, in our divison, etc.
- Become a mentor to some students. I have yet to have an official mentorship here at this school.
- Get involved with the LGBT students here on campus and learn about this environment more.
- Read at least ONE book related to student affairs this semester.
- Research and hopefully become an instructor for Safe Zone Allys.
- Get involved with the diversity/multiculturism committee on campus.
- Blog about residence life more!
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