SPOTLIGHTS
’15-16 AFFILIATION
GOING PAPERLESS While NEACURH was the last region to adopt a paperless bidding policy and the corresponding boardroom technology policies that followed, we’ve quickly learned and adapted. After close to 4 years of discussions in boardrooms and various versions of the policies written and re-written, NEACURH passed paperless bidding at our Regionals 2014 conference at Syracuse University. The decision to finally move NEACURH into the “21st century” like our regional counterparts was both exciting and nerve wracking, would the transition be accepted by our region? what challenges would we face? At our Minis 2015 conference, we saw a nearly seamless implementation of the policies. Boardroom participants were both excited for and pleased with the paperless boardroom procedures. With all participants having quick access to many resources at their fingertips, conversations were increasingly well-informed and discussions of bids and policies reached a new level of professionalism and accuracy. At NACURH 2015 we broke new ground when
BY THE NORTH EAST AFFILIATE
NEACURH had our first completely virtual election, Luke Habib completed a successful bidding process from all the way in Pennsylvania and ultimately became the Coordinating Officer for Outreach and Bidding. Luke continues to aid NEACURH in exploring the full potential of Technology guiding the region when, for the first 7 weeks of the Fall 2015 semester, he meets virtually with our entire RBD and various other regional members from all the way in Switzerland! We are looking forward to another seamless incorporation of technology at our Summit meeting when Luke will be joining us at various points in the meeting from Zurich! We have certainly come a long way in a short period of time and are very excited for future progress and incorporation of technology to further the advancement of our region. Who knows, now that we know Luke can effectively connect from Europe maybe we’ll be able to search farther for affiliations not only in NEACURH, but NACURH-wide!
L.E.A.D. LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
LEAD UPDATE LEAD is a program designed to promote and recognize the outstanding achievements of residence hall student leaders throughout their collegiate and NACURH career. By completing LEAD, individuals may earn their NACURH Links. Residence hall students at NACURH affiliated institutions are eligible to participate. The link to the website and the submission form can be found at lead.nacurh.org. The website should be available in three weeks, before regional conferences.
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