SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER 2018 VOLUME 36, NUMBER 1 DEPARTMENTS 10 10 PHOTO COURTESY OF EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY COLUMNS 8 Vision The Beauty of Transition By Deb Schmidt-Rogers 24 Res Life On Safe Ground 28 Facilities Study Wisely By Nadia Zhiri Learn about post-occupancy evaluations and how they inform the present and future of your buildings. By Craig Seager See how res life staff and police are teaming up to make campus safer. 32 Special Focus Big Data and Housing By Thomas Mueller Read how housing can leverage its resources to collaborate with research partners on campus. 4 TALKING STICK Just In Spotlight on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University plus Kent State kicks off their RA exchange program, Echo Dots land at Saint Louis University, senior administrators are soaking up res life at the University of Toronto Mississauga, the University of North Carolina in Wilmington rolls out its Seahawk RISE program, members from Cape Town share an update on the water shortage, and It Figures looks at bandwidth. 18 Calendar 20 Your ACUHO-I 23 Transitions 52 Conversations Career Changers By Denise L. Davidson Let's talk about NHTI competencies that professionals can infuse into their work every day. 56 First Takes 57 Around Student Affairs 59 New Members 60 Snapshot Meet Kyle Hovest.