Brandi M.Ed's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Vivacious Adaptive and Activator Creative and Innovative AmbitiousResidence Life Coordinator @ • Train, supervise, develop, and evaluate 9 Community Advisors (CAs) • Oversee and provide professional development opportunities for a Graduate Hall Coordinators • Supervise a Senior Business Assistant (SBA) in their complex administrative responsibilities • Directly supervise 9 Student Assistants (SAs) in their front desk responsibilities • Manage a complex of 509 students • Serve in the on-call professional staff member duty rotation for area housing approximately 4,000 students • Coordinate the summer operations of assigned building by supervising summer staff, coordinating the guest check- in process, serving in the on-call duty rotation, and being the main contact person for assigned camps and conferences • Advise the Leadership Inclusion Team • Committee Involvement: Social Justice Education Committee Disney Think Tank Indirectly-Student Staff/Professional Staff Training and Recruitment From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Lubbock, Texas AreaInstructor, Student Success Seminar and Leadership Principles @ • Instruct both fall Student Success Seminar course and spring Servant Leadership course • Teach 20 first-year students focused on transitioning students to the university campus resources, academic expectations, career exploration, study skills, learning styles, and leadership development. • Facilitate and teach the five practices of Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner’s Student Leadership Challenge, Dennis Snow’s Lessons from the Mouse, StrengthsQuest, and True Colors; coordinate service-learning projects that engage non-profit organizations in the Akron community, and reflect upon personal best leadership experiences • Restructure the basic university Student Success Seminar curriculum to fit the needs of the Service LLC • Develop new servant leadership class for the Service LLC which includes service learning, exposure to nonprofit organizations, and is guided by the Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership by James Sipe and Don Frick From August 2013 to May 2014 (10 months) Living Learning Communities Graduate Assistant @ • Provide direct supervision of seven student Peer Mentors of the Education, Business, Service and Civic Engagement, Pre Law, Women in Engineering and Men in Engineering LLCs • Indirect supervision of 10 additional student Peer Mentors and support 530+ LLC students • Conduct bi-weekly one-on-one meetings, team meetings, and staff meetings • Develop and expand the LLC wide iCHAT (Community Engagement, Health & Beauty, Awareness, Technology) Program series • Participate in the Professional Staff on Call rotation for crisis intervention and emergency support for a residential area housing 1700-3000 students • Develop and coordinate student staff training for Resident Assistants and Peer Mentors • Utilize Map-Works to identify and assist at risk students • Utilize Educational Benchmark Data to set goals and inform work with residential students • Assist with departmental hiring process: including Assistant Director, Residence Life Coordinator, Graduate Residence Director, and student staff • Support recruitment of LLC Participation through admission events and LLC display days • Assist in the planning and implementation of hall opening and closing processes • Partner with Faculty Advisers to create a cohesive Living-Learning experience through monthly programming for 16 L-LC’s and large scale building-wide programming • Provide support and challenge for residents through personal interactions, academic enrichment, policy enforcement, and programming • Committee Involvement: Recognition Committee End of Year Celebration Peer Mentor Training Resident Assistant Training Student Staff and Professional Staff Selection From May 2013 to May 2014 (1 year 1 month) Graduate Residence Director @ • Currently supervise a residence hall of 532 residents and 11 student staff members • Conduct follow-up MapWorks meetings addressing personal, social and academic concerns of residents • Provide support and challenge residents through personal interactions, conflict mediation, academic enrichment, policy violation adjudication, and programming • Participate in and provide student staff training and evaluation • Coordinate and participate in the student staff selection processes (resident assistants, desk managers, community assistants, which account for about 200 student staff) • Coordinate and participate in the professional staff selection processes (graduate residence directors, residence life coordinators) • Assist Resident Assistants in planning, implementing and evaluating hall programming • Adjudicate fact-finding meetings with students in violation of the student code of conduct • Advise residence hall government and manage hall budgets • Utilize Educational Benchmark Data to set goals and inform work with residential students • A member of the Professional Staff On-Call rotation, which responds to crisis situations with 3,500 residential students and make appropriate referrals to UAPD, Counseling Services and EMS From July 2012 to May 2013 (11 months) Master of Arts (M.A.), Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, 3.9 @ The University of Akron From 2012 to 2014 Bachelor's degree, Psychology, 3.78 @ Indiana Institute of Technology From 2008 to 2012 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology @ Trine University Brandi M.Ed is skilled in: Higher Education, Student Development, Living Learning Communities, Residential Education, Leadership, Residence Life, Microsoft Office, Team Building, Student Engagement, Management, Training, Student Affairs, Staff Development, Event Planning, Program Development