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DANIEL SCHRAEDER
What's the biggest issue for the students on your campus right now?
We have two residence halls on our campus in which students' academic
programs largely drive their individual assignment as first-year students
(and to some extent as sophomores), given our two-year residential
requirement. Students are particularly passionate about the impact their
assignment has on their ability to relate to other students and be successful
on our campus.

What's the biggest issue you see facing the profession right now?
Being able to justify the work we do, validate the amount it costs for our
services, and to ultimately prove our effectiveness through assessment.
Residence life programs will be challenged more and more to be able to
articulate our mission, vision, and goals to our stakeholders.

What makes your campus unique?
We welcomed our first cohort of first-year students to campus in 2001, and
they were all honors students. Our first traditional curriculum students
arrived in 2006. Depending on how closely an individual works with
first-year versus upper-division or graduate students can create two very
different pictures of our campus in their mind.

What are your favorite campus traditions?

DANIEL SCHRAEDER is the
assistant director of residence
life and education at the
University of Illinois, Springfield.
What is your favorite parent story?
While not a singular event, my favorite
parent interaction is getting to meet
the parents of my RAs and DAs on
graduation weekend. The pride in
their student's accomplishment - often
attributed to their student employment
with our department - makes all of
the developmental conversations
worthwhile.

Springfest - it is much like Greek Week at other campuses, but it is one
event that truly brings out students who may never participate in any other
extracurricular event for the year and connects them with a team as they
compete in a series of activities each night. The unity I have seen from
both teams and the community of participants (including faculty and staff
volunteers) is invigorating!

What are the most unusual housing or amenity requests you have
received?
I continue to be surprised by the variety of animals, reptiles, and bugs that
students have utilized as emotional support animals. However, I have also
seen the demonstrative change that students experience when interacting
with an animal, so if ESAs make independence less jarring, I choose not to
pass judgement.

What is your favorite move-in story?
I recall one move-in day when there was a steady downpour for the entire
span of first-year move-in. I was worried that volunteers wouldn't show or
be in good spirits, but I think that year volunteers were the strongest of all
the years I had been a part of, as they felt obligated to ensure that students
and their families were greeted with a smile and were able to feel how
sunny the campus truly was despite the rain that day.

What motivates you the most in your job?
Working to ensure that the product - the facility, programming, and
customer service - our students and their families pay for (both monetarily
and through their involvement in the community) is worth the cost.

What is the most challenging part of your work?
Helping staff understand how important it is to function as a true team
or cast - everyone has a special position or role to play that no one else
can do, and the best teams don't rely on their supervisor to guide them
but realize the strength that peer-to-peer accountability brings to an
organization. Much like in a baseball game, each player has a role, and
unless all players are supporting each other, you're not going to be the best
team in the league.
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017
Contents
Vision
Just In
Calendar
Your ACUHO-I
Transitions
Res Life
Facilities
Regroup
Double-Loop Assessment
When Resident Assistant Becomes Resident Worker
Conversations
First Takes
Around Student Affairs
New Members
Snapshot
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Vision
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Just In
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Calendar
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Your ACUHO-I
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Transitions
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Res Life
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Facilities
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Regroup
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - Double-Loop Assessment
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Talking Stick - September/October 2017 - First Takes
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