Social justice is central to our Jesuit mission and identity. This means social justice is everyone's work. Members of the Residence Life team have a unique responsibility to educate and engage our residents, student staff, and professional team in vital conversations to help create a more just and humane world. We want professionals to join our team who are willing to engage and reflect, challenge their students, and push their RAs to become people for and with others. This page will hopefully give you a snapshot of existing programs and initiatives from a variety of spaces, in addition to hearing from our team.
University Level
President's Statement on Diversity and Inclusion
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Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan
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Bias Advisory and Response Team
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Bias Education and Advocacy Team
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Affinity Groups
Student Support & Engagement
Highlighted Historical Departmental Initiatives
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Dual Hall Director recruitment processes allow for interviews both through The Placement Exchange and through phone and Zoom interviews. We realize not everyone can attend TPE for a variety of reasons (financial cost, family obligations, regional searches, etc.) so our process is open to all candidates, regardless of resources and access.
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We select RAs through the process of group discernment. This means each candidate has an advocate so they have a voice in the room that is able to speak to their potential in a holistic manner.
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Implementation of identity-based affinity groups for RAs
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Increase of male-identified RA candidates
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Increase of students of color RA candidates
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RAs proposed and presented peer-to-peer training sessions on mental health needs, working with students on the Autism spectrum, and examining privilege in the RA role
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Bias-reduction training of professional and student staff in preparation of RA interviews
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Ongoing training for the RA team with personal identity as the focus
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Incorporated social justice training during Fall and Winter training
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Tripled the amount of RA summer training sessions devoted to diversity and social justice education
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Diversity/Equity/Inclusion programming requirement of all RAs
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Elimination of a business casual dress code for RA interviews to lessen SES bias
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RAs have been trained by the gender-based violence student education team on campus
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Our RA staff has averaged 36% students of color, which is nearly double the population of students of color on campus
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Collaboration with our Center for Diversity and Inclusion to meet the housing needs of Trans* students
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Professional development opportunities for professional staff to grow such as department-wide webinars and peer-led discussions on topics such as undocumented students, queer students, bystander intervention, and students with disabilities
We realize you don't check your identities at the door during the job search and connecting with those who share your identities can help you feel more at ease about a department, University, or city. Please know a variety of additional identities are present in the department and division which are not listed here for a variety of reasons, so if you would like to be connected with someone who shares an identity with you, please reach out and we will do our best to get you in contact!
Hannah Sanders Hall Director (sandersh1@xavier.edu): I am comfortable talking about being a black woman and a recent Graduate School graduate at Xavier.
Derick Logan, Hall Director (logand2@xavier.edu): I am comfortable talking about being a Catholic man, married with partner, a parent while living at Xavier, and not being from the area.
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