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Housing Office Staff
Assistants to the Director of Housing and Residence Life/Resident Directors
Office of Housing & Residence Life Student Leadership
Custodial and Maintenance Staff
Department of Housing & Residence Life
Phone: (203) 837-8531
Fax: (203) 837-8529
Director of Housing and Residence Life Ron Mason |
Director of Residential Programs & Staff Maribeth Griffin |
Associate Director of Housing & Residence Life for Operations Edward P. Mulvihill |
Secretary Effie Masse |
Assistants to the Director of Housing and Residence Life/ Resident Directors
The Resident Directors (RDs) are full-time, live in administrative professional staff at Western Connecticut State University. They oversee students living in the halls, as well as activities and facilities. RDs provide advisement, counseling, and supervision for individuals, roommates, and other student groups. RDs work with the student staff of the building – Resident Assistants (RAs), Academic Resource Mentors (ARMs) and Information Desk staff – to create an environment that supports students academically, socially, and culturally.
Resident Directors also serve in a variety of roles in the operation of the department, specifically in terms of the selection and training of RA and ARM staff, room assignments, and occupancy. RDs serve an on-call rotation so that a professional staff member is always available, even when offices are closed. Your resident director usually has office hours from 10 am – 4 pm, Monday – Friday. Each has an office in his or her building where the bulk of these hours are spent, although they may from time to time be in meetings elsewhere on campus.
Listed below is contact information for each building’s RD and RA/ARM staff.
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Fairfield Hall – Ryan CookeTel: 203.837.8537 Email: cooker@wscu.edu Fairfield Hall – Information Desk Tel: 203.837.9236
Elijah Lewis, Student Community Assistant
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Litchfield Hall – Ryan FarrellTel: 203.837.9060 Email: farrellr@wcsu.edu Litchfield Hall – Information Desk Tel: 203.837.9733 |
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Newbury Hall – Andrea PereiraTel. 203.837.8534 Email: pereiraa@wcsu.edu Newbury Hall – Information Desk Tel: 203.837.9237 |
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Centennial Hall – Kevin BrenzelTel: 203.837.8850 Email: brenzelk@wcsu.edu Centennial Hall – Information Desk Tel: 203.837.9240 |
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Grasso Hall – Ryan CookeTel: 203.837.8548 Email: cooker@wcsu.edu Grasso Hall – Information Desk Tel:203.837.9854 |
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Pinney Hall – Lafayette GerstTel: 203.837.8535 Email: gerstl@wcsu.edu Pinney Hall – Information Desk Tel: 203.837.8655 |
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Office of Housing & Residence Life –
Resident Assistants (R.A.)
Resident Assistants at WCSU are trained in helping skills and interpersonal relations. They serve as facilitators for the floor councils of each residence hall. They are also in charge of conducting floor/section meetings in addition to meeting with residents as needed on a one to one basis. The meetings could be related to academic, social, or personal progress as related to college. As always, RA’s will be available to assist residents with maintenance issues, to act as sounding boards during roommate issues, and to be a general resource to residents regarding the University community, policy and procedures.
Academic Resource Mentors (A.R.M.)
Academic resource mentors are student peers who play an integral role in the establishment of an academic environment in the residence halls. They are an essential component of the CULTURE program for the Department of Housing and Residence Life. In addition to providing programming in the residence halls, ARM’s are available to residents as an academic resource, assisting them in obtaining information, and providing resources about majors and academic programs at the University. The ARM’s also guide residents through any issues they may have academically, providing them with a wealth of information on study skills or people that can help them. Finally, the ARM’s also work with Peer Academic Support System members to make sure the residents get the help that they need to succeed at WestConn.
Student Administrative Assistant (S.A.A.)
The Student Administrative Assistant is involved in wide array of activities in the residence halls. There is one S.A.A. per residence hall, and they are responsible for recruiting desk staff, training, supervising, and conducting desk meetings, creating, and editing schedules, working at the desk when necessary, and assisting the Resident Director of their building in a variety of office related tasks and assignments. Some of these tasks include following up with residents on maintenance issues and entering priority points into the central database.
Information Desk Personnel
Information desk personnel are an integral part of each residence hall. Workers are responsible for monitoring residents entering and exiting the buildings. They also sign all guests into the building and answer the many day to day questions that residents may have. Desk staff workers are supervised by the Student Administrative Assistant and the Resident Director of their residence hall.
Student Office Assistants
Student Office Assistants help in completing a wide variety of tasks such as the assistance in the operation of the Housing Office. They answer telephones, respond to e-mails, answer student and parental questions regarding housing, and assist the Housing Office Staff as needed. They are integral team members on our Housing and Residence Life team.
Custodial and Maintenance Staff Custodians
Each building has a hard-working custodial staff that cleans the bathrooms, lounges and other public areas of the buildings. They work Monday to Friday from 7am-3pm and on Saturdays a custodian replenishes bathroom paper supplies. The custodians do not clean resident rooms, pick up garbage bags left outside doors or store any furniture. Custodians report to the Supervising Custodian.
Maintainers
Maintainers are responsible for minor repairs in the residence halls. The maintainers are busy people, charged with caring for all resident rooms, as well as public bathrooms, kitchens, lounges, and all the furnishings contained in the above mentioned areas. Please have patience when submitting Maintenance Request Forms and know that your issue will be handled in a timely fashion.