Annual Programs

Residential Education works to ensure that our programs and activities are intentional, inclusive, build community and support learning. To that, our programs are divided into different categories.

• Community Engagement

  Students will understand the value of engaging on-campus and within the community.

  Community engagement includes on-campus and off-campus involvement with opportunities that will allow students to develop a deeper sense of belonging. By integrating in this way students will be able to build networks that support their personal and academic success. Community engagement means students will create a plan for their co-curricular experiences to ensure that they will be able to engage in behaviors that positively contribute to the world around them.  Community engagement will also allow students to explore their leadership capabilities via different avenues on and off campus while creating personal strategies for developing social skills.  Lastly, community engagement will allow for students to connect to the campus community at large.

  Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will be able to create a plan that encompasses their co-curricular experiences.
  • Students will engage in behaviors that positively contribute to the world around them.
  • Students will be able to explore their capacity for leadership through different avenues on and off campus.
  • Students will be able to construct personal strategies for developing social skills.
  • Students will feel a connection to the campus community through their co-curricular activities.
• Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)

  Students will understand how justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion practices, policies and procedures impact them and others.

  Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) includes one's ability to reflect on how their personal lived experiences have impacted them. JEDI examines how individuals have been historically and currently stereotyped, prejudiced, discriminated against and oppressed; how these concepts have influenced their daily lives. JEDI strives to bring compassionate empathy to students’ forefront; moving them past simply understanding the emotional experience(s) of others and compelling them to take substantive actions to create change. Finally, JEDI means one will be able to apply various frameworks embedded in advocacy, allyship, and social change to create a more equitable and just society.

  Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will be able to examine and/or explore their personal identities; how they intersect and shape who they are.
  • Students will be able to reflect on and articulate a historical and current understanding of how underrepresented groups are and have been stereotyped, as well as how they (have) experience(d) prejudice, discrimination, and oppression.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate compassionate empathy for the lived experiences of those with differing identities than them.
  • Students will be able to advocate for and employ strategies to create social change to enact an equitable and just society.
• Scholarly Engagement

  Students will develop skills and identify appropriate campus resources, so that they become active participants in their scholarly endeavors.

  Scholarly engagement signifies supporting students as they pursue research and enrichment opportunities at UCR. Engagement includes the amount of “physical and psychological energy that a student devotes to the academic experience.” (Astin, 1975).  Students shall work to seek out campus resources and partner with them to enhance their experience.   Scholarly engagement also means students will be able to identify and meet their basic needs in order to concentrate on their academic endeavors. For this purpose, basic needs include food, housing, mental health, sleep, hygiene, financial literacy, school supplies, childcare, transportation, and access to the internet and technology. Finally, students should fully embrace and utilize essential campus resources to enhance their social, psychological, and physical wellbeing as they work towards the completion of their degree.

  Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will be able to develop essential skills to navigate through their scholarly endeavors.
  • Students will be able to self-identify their basic needs and partner with campus resources to ensure they are fulfilled.
  • Students will be able to explore and utilize different campus resources that will assist them in their scholarly endeavors.
  • Students will be able to be active participants in their learning, which will help produce numerous social and psychological benefits.
• Self-Authorship

  Students will understand how self-authorship contributes to their ever-evolving authentic self.

  Self-authorship includes one's continuous articulation of their personal values and beliefs through self-reflection and exploration. Self-authorship includes identifying and participating in interdependent learning. Interdependent learning is the development of intertwined and interconnected experiences that enhance one's understanding and values individual contribution to the whole. Self-authorship allows one to articulate their personal responsibility for their identities and engage in discussions involving perspectives different from their own. Finally, self-authorship will explore and create learning experiences for oneself that will enhance their personal and professional development.

  Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to continuously articulate their personal values and beliefs through self-reflection and exploration.
  • Students will identify and participate in interdependent learning.
  • Students will articulate their personal responsibility for their identities and lived experiences and engage in discussions involving perspectives different from their own.
  • Students will be able to explore and create learning experiences that will enhance their personal and professional development.