Building your RHA Chapter Building your RHA Chapter from the Ground Upfrom the Ground Up

Melissa TurkingtonMelissa Turkingtonandand

M’Liss DeWald M’Liss DeWald The Evergreen State CollegeThe Evergreen State College

Agenda

Purposing Research Institutional support Advisor resources Marketing campaign Training Other things to keep in mind

Assess Challenges of Assess Challenges of your Current Structure your Current Structure Determine your purposeDetermine your purpose

Two phases of restructuring:Two phases of restructuring: Institutional- what value does the Institutional- what value does the

institution place on your RHA? institution place on your RHA? Organizational- purposing exercises with Organizational- purposing exercises with

the groupthe group

Do your Research Do your Research Foundational DocumentsFoundational Documents

Draft or revise your constitution Draft or revise your constitution GO Constitution

Glean from Glean from other RHA chapters Resources Resources

What are they? What are they? SpaceSpace BudgetBudget Time and energy Time and energy Campus networking Campus networking

Where is your support coming from?Where is your support coming from?

Institutional Support Institutional Support Administrative Administrative

Make sure your supervisor knows enough about what you Make sure your supervisor knows enough about what you do to support your needsdo to support your needs

Budget Budget Where is your budget coming from? Student fees? Where is your budget coming from? Student fees?

Know state laws around budgets Know state laws around budgets Know how to supplement your budgetKnow how to supplement your budget

How to break up your budgetHow to break up your budget

Make friends with Make friends with everyoneeveryone involved with money handling! involved with money handling! Informational interviewsInformational interviews Ask lots of questionsAsk lots of questions Know their busy timesKnow their busy times

Advisor Resources Advisor Resources

Don’t re-invent the wheel Don’t re-invent the wheel 1.1. ““Advice for Advisers”: your new best friendAdvice for Advisers”: your new best friend

2.2. Articles Articles 1.1. The Wave/Soundings/Talking Stick The Wave/Soundings/Talking Stick

2.2. The Chronicle/Academic PublicationsThe Chronicle/Academic Publications

3.3. TheoriesTheories1.1. Leadership DevelopmentLeadership Development

2.2. Group Development Group Development

4.4. Network with other advisorsNetwork with other advisors

Get your Name OutGet your Name OutBrandingBranding

LogoLogo BannersBanners BalloonsBalloons Co-sponsorshipCo-sponsorship

Marketing Marketing ActiveActive

Campaign (Canvas, Table, Mailboxes, Take-aways)Campaign (Canvas, Table, Mailboxes, Take-aways) Host events (Greener Spirit Night)Host events (Greener Spirit Night) Start at OrientationStart at Orientation

PassivePassive FacebookFacebook WebsiteWebsite Agendas/minutesAgendas/minutes E-mailsE-mails

TrainingTraining

Train your Executive BoardTrain your Executive Board Retreat – if you can’t retreat, do it Retreat – if you can’t retreat, do it

somewhere on campussomewhere on campus Show retreat schedule Show retreat schedule

Training Schedule FRIDAY Travel to location leave at 3pm?

2 hours Hiring paperwork/contract (1 hour)

Go over hiring paper work and have them fill it out Read the contract out loud and have them sign it

Team builder (1 hour) Name game – with chickens Amazon river and love turtle game

Ground rules and expectations for training (1 hour) Set ground rules as a team Give them advisors expectations Put both of them on the wall

DINNER (1 hour) Personality profile (30 min)

Success signals/true colors How to communicate (based on profiles) (30 min)

Interpreting your style and working with the group Read through GO Handbooks

Saturday BREAKFAST (30 minutes) Team Builder/Energizer (30 minutes)

Lumberjack ninja’s Officer positional training (2 hours)

We go around individually train the officers on their positions Set individual goals- share those goals with us in one on one’s or with the group Set meeting time

Housing Arbitration Panel Training (30 minutes) Go over HAP responsibilities and set meetings

Basic meeting protocols (30 min) Run down of what meetings look like this year

Constitution (30 min) LUNCH Programming nuts and bolts (publicity, learning themes) (30 minutes)

Go over handouts and large scale programming Attitude (FISH) (1 hour) Recruitment and Motivation (1 hour)

Read article Talk about the article Activity

Group development and relational leadership (60-90 min) DINNER Storyboarding goal activity (2ish hours)

Mission statement Post-it activity with goals Step by step planning of activities

Night activities (it’s a secret, don’t tell anyone)

Training Schedule

Sunday Breakfast (30 min) Assessing group dynamics activity (30

min) Clean up and load car (30 min) Wrap up (30 min)

Touch someone who… Drive home (2 hours)

Other Things to ConsiderOther Things to Consider

Involve RAs Involve RAs Continue training throughout the year Continue training throughout the year Create a 2-year planCreate a 2-year plan Schedule restructure timesSchedule restructure times Integrate other programs and groupsIntegrate other programs and groups

2 Year Plan Greener Organization 2-year Plan (2008-2010)

Goals Affiliate with NACURH by Spring 2009 Create NHRR chapter by Winter 2010 50% active member retention by Fall 2009 Relative autonomy (Advisor does not make most of

project/scheduling decisions) Represent Evergreen at PACURH by Spring 2009 Initiate Of-The-Month Awards by Winter 2009 Absorb the HAP and Free Store by Winter 2009 Have a GO-centered marketing plan by Winter 2010 Attend PACURH, no-frills and NACURH by Spring 2010

Purpose, Duties of the Officers, Active Members’ Duties, Membership, Conferences, GO-Sponsored Councils, General Structure, and Meeting Structure

Questions?Questions?