SUNY Geneseo Inter-Residence Council

							    SUNY Geneseo
Inter-Residence Council



                  Presented By :
                  Eric M. Blask
                        &
                 Brock A. Buffum
            What Is IRC?

• Voice of residential community
• Programming body
• Leadership training
           Mission Statement
The State University of New York College at
Geneseo Inter-Residence Council, as the largest on-
campus organization, is committed to providing a
positive, approachable, and effective forum for all
students. The Inter-Residence Council strives to be
the aware and involved voice of Geneseo’s
residential community and seeks to develop a
broader intellectual, social, and cultural on-campus
environment. From this foundation, the Inter-
Residence Council trains and develops the next
generation of student leaders.
            History Lesson
• Residence Hall Association (RHA)
• National Association of College and
  University Residence Halls (NACURH)
  – Divided regionally into 8 Regions
  – Geneseo belongs to:
    NorthEast Affiliate of College and University
    Residence Halls (NEACURH)
  Residence Hall Associations
• Usually divisions of Residence Life
• Many varieties of systems
• Geneseo unique
   • Student Association
      • Standing Committee
      • Director of Inter-Residence Affairs is IRC Chair
   • Integrally linked by mission and purpose with
     Residence Life and Division of Student Life
     NACURH & NEACURH
 Nationally – NACURH     Regionally – NEACURH
• 8 Regions throughout   • Intimate networking
  USA and Canada           with schools close by
• Large forum for        • List serve full of ideas
  networking and ideas   • Upward mobility to
• Provides RHA’s with      Regional Board of
  unity and strength       Director positions
• Annual conference      • Bi-annual conferences

What does IRC take home…
From NACURH & NEACURH
• Programs and Leadership Development
  – Learn from attending presentations
  – Experience from presenting programs
• Networking
  – Invaluable help information from other schools
• Recognition
  – Annual awards (Regionally and Nationally)
             Structure of IRC

Director of Inter-Residence Affairs              Advisor
               (DIRA)                  Member or Residence Life Staff
  IRC Chair by virtue of position
    Election is Campus Wide


      Executive Board
      Oversee organizational details
      Elected by General Assembly in
      April of previous year

      General Assembly
      Allocate funds for hall programs
      Elected by Hall
  IRC Executive Board
                      Student Association
               Director of Inter-Residence Affairs
                 IRC Chair by virtue of position
                   Election is Campus Wide


         Vice Chair                Campus Relations Coordinator
Coordinate Training Programs       Facilitate Campus Round Table



         Treasurer                           Secretary
     Financial Business             Agendas, Minutes, & Records



 National Communications                Programming Chair
   Coordinators (NCC's)             Coordinate IRC Programming
     Connecet IRC with
     region and nation
    Leadership Development

• Two day training at beginning of semester

• Continuous training:
  – During IRC meetings
  – Campus Round Table
       Semesterly Training

• Attended by IRC members and RC members
• Modeled after NEACURH conferences
  – Programming sessions
  – Halls work together to build community
• SALT award
         Continuous Training
• Campus Round Table
  – Hall Presidents Trained by CRC
  – Presidents take training back to entire hall


• During IRC Meetings
  – Bi-monthly training moments
     • Ten minute training moments
     • Usually done by outside organizations:
         – Geneseo Organization for Leadership Development
         – National Residence Hall Honorary
         – Student Organizations
           Programming

• IRC programs

• IRC co-sponsored programs

• IRC funded hall programs
            IRC Programs
• Wide range of students reached
• Looking to diversify target groups
• Example programs:
      –Nintendo
      –Rocky horror
      –Shopping trip
      –Siblings weekend
      –Sports game trip
  IRC Co-sponsored Programs

• Other organizations   • Examples:
  come to IRC for:        –   MidKnight Madness
   – Man power            –   MidKnight Breakfast
   – Publicity            –   Condom Casino
   – Funding              –   FYE Events
     IRC Hall Funded Programs
(Many in conjunction with RA floor programming)

• Come for partial funding   • Wide variety:
  for a hall programs           –   Pots-n-Paints
• Little IRC involvement        –   Paintball
  outside of funding and        –   Mother’s Day Crafts
  suggestions                   –   Floor dinners
• Approximately 60-70           –   Horse Back Riding
  programs a year               –   Picnics
  IRC and Residence Councils
• Umbrella Organization
  – Facilitate RC Elections
  – Oversee training of RC
  – Partially fund many programs
• Campus Round Table (CRT)
  – Bi-weekly meetings of hall presidents
  – Overseen by the Campus Relations Coordinator
  – Fun, informative, planning
             IRC Meetings
• Forum for discussion    • Funding
  and ideas                 – Readings to provide
  – Readily available         RCs with funding
    source for student      – 2 Readings for request
    opinion                   over $75
  – Open discussion to      – Debated and voted
    address concerns of       upon by General
    students                  Assembly
  – Announcements about
    campus events
                      Finances
• Student Association
  (student fee money)
• Majority for
  programming
• Unique funding:
   – most RHA budgets
     from college directly or
     from Residence Life
How this ties into the College


      • Student Association
      • Residence Life
      • Administration
        Student Association
• Our parent organization and source of
  funding
• Direct link to administration
            Residence Life
• Programming body
• Funding source for Residence Councils and
  RA’s through the Residence Councils
• Available source for student opinion
  – RA involvement in student teaching
  – Furniture in Residence Halls
              Administration
• Direct link to student    • Indirectly linked
  opinion (Residence          through the Student
  Hall issues)                Association on all
                              issues affecting whole
   – Residence Hall
     Renovations
                              campus
                               – Possible laptop
   – Computers in                program
     Residence Halls
                               – Snow Removal
   – Faculty in Residence      – Campus Auxiliary
     Report                      Service rule changes
   For more information visit
http://www.geneseo.edu/~gencc
  or email sairc@geneseo.edu