Residential Campus Advisory Committee

C29U

The Residential Campus Advisory Committee is concerned with evaluating and recommending action on the residential campus initiative, including proposals to enhance the residential campus experience, and assessments related to the goals and outcomes of the residential campus.

Members will be appointed by the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice President for Student Life:

• Seven teaching faculty members appointed from the following areas for two-year, renewable terms
  • Arts and Sciences: Art and Humanities; Natural, Mathematical and Computational Sciences; Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • School of Business
  • School of Communications
  • Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education
  • School of Health Sciences
• Associate Provost or their designee
• Vice President for Student Life or their designee
• Director of Residence Life/Assistant Dean of Campus Life
• Representative from the First-Year Committee
• Director of Elon Core Curriculum, or their designee from the Core Curriculum Council, when absent
• Representative from the Inclusive Community Council
• Lead Faculty Director for a Residential Neighborhood
• Coordinator for Residential Campus Dining and Engagement
• Representative from Wellness (HHP or Campus Recreation)
• Two Student Representatives, one appointed by the Student Government Association and one appointed by the Resident Student Association

• Membership to the committee is by appointment of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice President for Student Life.
• The committee has two standing Co-Chairs, the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, or designee, and the Vice President for Student Life, or designee.
• Faculty and staff members will be ineligible to vote on funding from this committee for their own initiatives during the term of their service on the committee.
• Committee meetings are scheduled by the Chairs once a month at a time convenient to committee members, unless committee business necessitates more frequent meetings.
• The Chairs inform members of meetings at least one week in advance and provide a written agenda and a copy of the minutes of the previous meeting.
• The Chairs preside at all meetings unless they appoint a proxy in their absence.
• The Chairs appoint another committee member to record the minutes of each meeting.
• All decisions on committee business will be made through normal parliamentary procedure and a majority vote of the members present. A quorum consists of a majority of the committee membership.
• The Chairs report the committee’s recommendations for funding promptly to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice President for Student Life. Once approved, the Chairs of the residential campus committee will notify applicants.
• The Chairs are responsible for completing all reports of committee business and submitting them to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Vice President for Student Life at the end of each academic year as necessary. This report will be forwarded to the President.

• To provide oversight of the residential campus initiative.
• To issue call for proposals to enhance the residential campus initiative and to manage and make recommendations to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Vice President for Student Life as to which proposals to fund.
• To monitor and assess the goals and outcomes associated with the residential campus initiative.