Architecture Course Series  $840.00  

Be prepared to be part of the strategic conversations with architects and designers as you create halls that deliver the exemplary living experience students expect and deserve. The Architecture Online Course Series was underwritten by Treanor Architects with additional support provided by Ayers Saint Gross, Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering, and Hanbury.

• • Learn about the materials and systems, life-cycle project costs, code requirements, and sustainability issues involved in a construction or renovation project.
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  Certificate in Occupancy Management  $1,660.00  

The ACUHO-I Certificate in Occupancy Management provides an in-depth and strategic look at the occupancy management process and teaches you to implement critical operations and practices. What separates this program from other ACUHO-I online courses is that it concludes with a capstone project where you demonstrate the knowledge gained through the earlier courses by putting your knowledge to use in a real-world scenario.

Learning Outcomes

• • Gain a greater understanding of how to identify influencing factors of occupancy management as well as analyze the pertinent data.

• • Learn to manage the occupancy management process and arrange your departmental resources and schedules to best meet your goals.

• • Discover insight into the steps necessary to create, implement, and assess your institution’s occupancy management operations.


Creating a Living-Learning Program  $275.00  

Living-learning programs have been shown to foster meaningful connections between students, support overall student success, and help students feel more connected to their academic experience. This course will provide campus housing and residence life professionals with a framework to develop, implement, and support new living-learning programs in their residence halls. Participants will learn to evaluate programs that may be a good fit for the campus community, create implementation timelines, determine campus partnerships and resources that can help facilitate program development, develop a plan for recruiting students, and more.

Learning Outcomes

• • Identify what type of living-learning program is the best fit for their campus community.

• • Create a timeline for living-learning program implementation.

• • Determine campus partnerships and resources that facilitate living-learning program development.

• • Develop a plan for marketing and recruiting students to living-learning programs.

• • Propose a supporting staff structure for decision-making parties.


Developing and Refining a Resident Assistant Training Program  $275.00  

Resident assistants are a vital part of any campus housing program, and these student workers deserve thought-provoking and engaging training that will prepare them for the position and its responsibilities. In this course, you will learn instructional and curriculum design methodology to improve training for student staff. This course is vital for RA training leaders but has benefits for an entire training team to complete collectively.

Learning Outcomes

• • Identify gap analysis and decision analysis opportunities between content offerings and training objectives.

• • Apply the ADDIE instructional design model to RA training schedules and presentations.

• • Develop an action plan if changes are needed to current training.

• • Articulate best training practices and how they can be applied to RA training.


Homelessness and Food Insecurity  $275.00  

Awareness of the challenge of home and food insecurity among students is growing. In this course, participants will learn to find and utilize available resources in their department, on campus, or in the community to create a plan of action to assist students facing homelessness and food insecurity. They also will analyze how current practices within housing and food service can be modified on their campus to assist students who need it.

Learning Outcomes

• • Demonstrate an understanding of the true costs of today’s higher education.

• • Analyze resources available to aid students who are facing homelessness and food insecurity.

• • Appraise the ACUHO-I Standards & Ethical Principles and how current practices in housing assignments can be modified to accommodate students who are financially insecure.

• • Create a plan of action to assist students facing homelessness and food insecurity on their campus.


International Student Support  $275.00  

This course presents the general needs that most international students face when they attend colleges and universities in the United States and live on campus. Drawing from various viewpoints, this course will challenge you to explore how to best serve this growing student population.

Learning Outcomes

• • Explore the needs of international students living on campus, including specific topics such as arrival, making friends, integration, academics, intercultural communication, financial services, and others.

• • Examine and assess services currently offered on your campus.

• • Learn best practices related to services for international students.

• • Create an action plan to help develop your programs, services, and training.


Legal Issues in Student Housing  $275.00  

Campus housing professionals face a wide array of federal and state statutory and regulatory compliance issues, as well as decisions on how to best balance and mitigate risks. Course participants receive an overview of these top legal issues in a manner that avoids overly academic or legal language and instead draws heavily from a range of real-world situations. By focusing on possible scenarios, it guides participants through a clear analysis process to consider relevant laws, cases, and legal principles to arrive at a conclusion that satisfactorily manages potential risk. This course will introduce participants to basic legal principles related to campus housing contracts, constitutional rights, privacy, civil torts, and risk management, as well as an overview of relevant issues, including mental health, freedom of speech, disability, threat assessment, and more.

Learning Outcomes

• • Be introduced to legal issues related to campus housing.

• • Develop a process to manage potential risk.

• • Assess current policies and procedures through a legal lens.


Navigating Culture & Mental Health (Micro Course #4)  $60.00  

In this course, you will be introduced to navigating culture and mental health. Topics include generational trauma, differences in expressing emotion and cultural hesitations in seeking help. There are also videos included to offer diverse perspectives on the complex relationship between culture and mental health, providing valuable insights for understanding a diverse student and staff population.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how culture can impact expressions of distress
• Recognize how historical and generational trauma can manifest in residential communities
• Identify the difference between community verses individual coping skills
• Recognize how cultural background can explain a hesitancy in seeking help for mental health services


RA 101: Being a Resident Assistant  $35.00  

Perfect for new RAs, this course is an introduction to the important work they do to support students, create and support a community, work with teammates (both peers and supervisors), and more.

• • Module 1 – The World Around Us: Explores how RAs help create the foundation of a residential community through building relationships, facilitating connections, and applying customer service practices.

• • Module 2 – Being an Agent of Your Institution: Explores key policies and procedures that impact the RA role, explores the ethical decision-making process, and addresses key strategies for operating as a member of a team and a responsible and valued member of the campus community.

• • Module 3 – Cool, Clear Head: Covers topics related to how to effectively evaluate and act on safety concerns and strategies for responding to various emergency situations, including mental health and safety-related concerns.

• • Module 4 – Self and Self-Care: Covers the importance of self-care and provides tools and strategies for time management and prioritization.


RA 201: Developing the Holistic Resident Assistant  $35.00  

It builds on the established knowledge base from RA 101 and helps participating RAs explore the application of that knowledge to their practice as student leaders and to their future.

• • Module 1 – Self Awareness: Covers aspects of the RA role that include social justice, conflicts and bias, self-care and stress management, advocacy, inclusion, self-identity, leadership reflection, and effective role modeling.

• • Module 2 – Student Awareness: Covers a broad range of mental health concerns (depression, anxiety, suicide, eating disorders, addiction) and provides insights specifically for student leaders, including warning signs, resources, and tools to support students.

• • Module 3 – Team Awareness: Addresses fundamental aspects of working in team settings, including motivation, conflict, intergroup communication, and managing change.

• • Module 4 – Putting it All Together: Provides a unique opportunity for RAs to identify transferable skills gained through the RA role and apply them to their future career goals.


RA Supervision  $275.00  

For many entry-level housing professionals, overseeing resident assistants is the first supervisory role they have held. This course will provide tools for those individuals to explore different supervision styles, workplace and human development theory, competencies for effective supervisors, and more.

Learning Outcomes

• • Critique styles of supervision and articulate which ones best reflect your innate practice of supervision.

• • Analyze your institution’s expectations for RA supervisors.

• • Examine the role of human development and workplace theories that shape the RA work environment.

• • Articulate competencies associated with effective supervisors.

• • Describe tools used to aid in the supervision of RAs.

• • Identify a supervision philosophy and its application to your work with RAs


Recognizing and Supporting Students in Distress (Micro Course #5)  $60.00  

In this course, you will be introduced to responding and supporting students in distress. Topics include understanding the warning signs of distress, how to respond appropriately to different levels of distress, knowing when to make a referral and navigating through common barriers to getting someone help.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand your role as a professional in supporting mental health
• Understand the continuum of everyday stress to crisis
• Recognize the physical, behavioral and emotional signs to know when an immediate response is needed
• Ask the appropriate questions to assess if the situation is a moment of distress or a crisis
• Use effective phrases to respond to a student in a variety of stressful situations
• Identify if you need to implement an emergency action plan for a student in crisis


Strengthening Mental Health (Full Course with all 5 micro courses)  $275.00  

In 2023, ACUHO-I began the Future of the Profession initiative. Eight areas of focus were identified, including Strengthening Mental Health. Staff training and professional development are key in providing support to campus professionals that are on the front line in working with students and their mental health.

This course is divided into ‘micro’ courses or modules that allow the learner to pick and choose the topics most relevant to them at this point in their career. Each micro course includes an overview of the topic, timely resources for more information, an activity designed to put theory into practice, and a quiz to measure learning and comprehension. Additional videos are included from the course author or a professional in the field to illustrate real-world examples to enhance understanding.

Save more by purchasing the full course. If a learner completes all modules (either in the full course or each module separately), they will receive a recognition of completion of the full course.


Supervising Full Time Staff  $275.00  

Supervision requires a balance of caring, advocating, leading groups, providing context, living with difficult decisions, and holding staff accountable to expectations. After completing this course, you will be able to seamlessly implement individual goals and values into your leadership style, develop recruitment, selection, onboarding, and orientation processes, design a performance appraisal process, and more.

Learning Outcomes

• • Develop onboarding and orientation process.

• • Create a comprehensive recruitment and selection process.

• • Clarify your leadership by identifying, labeling, and understanding your values.

• • Actively confront personal areas of bias, prejudice, or lack of understanding.

• • Design a performance appraisal process.


Sustainable Support: The Role of Healthy Boundaries (Micro Course #3)   $60.00  

In this course, you will be introduced to setting healthy boundaries. This includes personal and professional relationships. There are several videos that illustrate this concept, and specific tips to help set healthy boundaries.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the definition of boundaries in relationships
• Recognize the difference between rigid boundaries, healthy boundaries and loose boundaries
• Incorporate specific actions to identify and improve boundaries that need to be set personally and professionally


Understanding Mental Health (Micro Course #1)  $60.00  

In this course, you will be introduced to the definition of mental health, why it is important to understand mental health, and the role housing and residence life professionals can play in working with students on a continuum of mental health challenges. Included in the module are supplemental videos and a comprehensive research report.

Learning Outcomes:

• Define mental health
• Understand the continuum of mental health
• Recognize how a residential student may fall on the continuum of mental health
• Understand the most common mental health concerns for college students


Using Empathetic Communication as a Tool for Mental Health (Micro Course #2)  $60.00  

In this course, you will be introduced to empathy as a way to understand and support others. Five strategies are given that help increase the skill of empathetic communication.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the difference between empathy, sympathy, and compassion
• Practice active listening skills
• Understand validation as a communication skill
• Learn how to make questions more open ended to encourage communication
• Recognize how to avoid judgement as a way to increase empathy
• Increase the skill of being present in communicating with others