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Community Assistant

The Community Assistant is responsible for assisting the Residence Coordinators in developing, coordinating, and maintaining a program within the hall which strives to provide a positive intellectual, emotional, and social living environment for students. A Community Assistant is someone with at least one semester's residence in a residence hall at OSU-Okmulgee. The Community Assistant is selected on the basis of a display of, sensitivity to, and interest in people; objectivity and respect for the worth and dignity of the individual; open mindedness on issues; degree of empathy; the ability to handle autonomy and make decisions; and his/her success within the academic community. A Community Assistant is, always, a role model.

The main responsibility of the Community Assistant is to provide support, encouragement and leadership to his/her community. He/She should be available to his/her residents and empower them to grow and develop as good citizens. Community Assistants help to establish a positive living/learning environment. This is accomplished by the following:

• Being aware of the academic needs of the community
• Facilitating an environment in which residents can meet their academic needs
• Building relationships with the residents
• Assisting the residents in developing relationships with each other
• Serving as a resource
• Advising students on your halls
• Interpreting and enforcing University policies
• Role modeling positive behaviors and attitudes
• Promoting student involvement in the University
• Challenging residents to look at the world through a different perspective
• Providing helping skills to those residents in need
• Allowing residents to make their own choices, while being available to discuss those choices with them

Community Assistants also perform the following administrative tasks:

• Check-in and check-out procedures of residents
• Responsible for helping with all close downs and openings
• Working on-call weekends
• Keeping track of occupancy in his/her community
• Documenting conduct violations and filing incident reports
• Reporting maintenance and facility concerns
• Reviewing the physical appearance of the building
• Panning and Initiating programs that facilitate four areas Cultural, Educational, Social, and Recreational
• Serve as RHA Representative
• Duty responsibilities as assigned

Community Assistants must be full-time students with a cumulative and semester GPA of 2.0 or higher. Community Assistants are also required to live on the floor for which he/she is responsible.

Along with the hourly wage each Community Assistant is paid, there will be a $600 stipend per semester that will be paid in three (3) $200 installments; this stipend is for the following on-call weekends, check-in, check-out, close down, reopening, and programming.