Campus Council took the first steps in beginning the new Collaborative Housing Process with Residential Group Assessment Committee and the Approval Removal Committee elections at its meeting Thursday night.
The council elected the RGAC chair, vice chair and five at-large members. However, the council did not elect an ARC chair and just filled four of the five at-large positions on the committee.
The RGAC is responsible for annually evaluating residential living groups using a set rubric. The ARC will use RGAC’s scores to determine whether or not certain groups should be put on probation or gain or lose housing privileges. RGAC and ARC are part of the CHP, the new housing assessment process developed last Spring.
The decision to hold off on filling ARC positions “is in the interest of building the largest possible candidate pool,” according to a press release from the council,
As a result, the council is reopening the application process for the ARC chair. According to the CHP handbook, the ARC chair will have the right to appoint a candidate to the remaining at-large position since the general body did not.
“This [decision] is less of a comment on the candidates themselves than it is the fact that we want to see more applications and make sure we’re doing this right,” said sophomore Jeremy Ruch, Campus Council public relations director.
Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a senior, said the decision to not vote on an ARC chair will give the council more flexibility. He added that the council wants to ensure the ARC is best prepared to deal with the housing petitions it will face this year.
“This is incredibly important, as this is the ARC’s inaugural year,” Temple said. “We want to make sure we optimize the ARC also because it will help determine which groups will have sections as we transition to the house model.”
Sophomores Nazanin Amini, Brittany Coleman and Kaya Massey as well as senior Wesley Brown will serve as the four at-large members of the ARC.
Ashley Jordan, a junior, will serve as RGAC chair and Allison LeCavalier, a sophomore, was elected vice-chair. At-large members will be juniors Kevin Thurman, Ashley Baker and Prithviraj Singha Roy, and senior Yujin Chun.
Interfraternity Council and Selective House Council representatives, who are elected internally, should be finalized by the end of the week, Temple said.
“Once the RGAC is up and running, it will be hosting info sessions [about the CHP] with liaisons from residential living groups,” he said. He noted that dates for these sessions have not yet been set.
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