Honors Residential College (HRC) Faculty Principal 2014-15 Year-End Report

The Faculty principal for the Honors Residential College (HRC) serves as the intellectual leader of the college, working collaboratively with the residence life live-in staff, University Honors staff, and supporting faculty fellows to enhance the learning environment by engaging residents in educational activities designed to promote intellectual and community engagement. As such, the principal works with Housing & Residence Life, University Honors, and the residential college advisory board to nurture a vibrant sense of community that fosters academic excellence, promotes faculty-student interaction, and enriches the student living-learning experience. The principal will share responsibility for fostering and shaping the social, cultural, and educational life of the residential college. The evaluation and review process for the faculty principal is a mechanism to allow the faculty principal to intentionally reflect upon the prior year and to share these reflections, accomplishments, and progress with the stakeholders of the HRC. The first step of the review is a year-end report which highlights the life of the HRC and the faculty principal’s efforts toward promoting intellectual and community engagement in the HRC. The report should be submitted to the senior associate vice president for student affairs, the director of University Honors, and the director of Housing and Residence Life by May 31. Subsequently, the principal will then meet with these stakeholders to share his/her reflections and for this team to discuss the previous year.