Posted by Douglas Fisher on Monday, January 11, 2016 in News.

Welcome back, everyone!

Visitors from Virginia Tech’s Honors Residential College (HRC) are visiting this week. They will be arriving late afternoon on Tuesday, January 12 and departing about Noon on Thursday, January 14. The visitors team includes the Faculty Principal (aka Faculty Director or Head of House) of HRC, a “Graduate Fellow”, and 6 members of the HRC student council (i.e., President, Vice President, Secretary, Historian, Director of Academic Enrichment, and Director of Communication). I am particularly struck that HRC has the position of Historian on their council!

We have arranged a full schedule of OPEN thematic meetings — that means anyone can attend, including you!

The full schedule is below.

Students might be particularly interested in the HRC overview at 4:00 pm on Wednesday and the students-only breakout at 5:30 on Wednesday. But you are also welcome to join our various meals — just look for a group of strangers, who are eating with a group of familiar faces.

The visitors will be staying throughout Warren and Moore, so say hello.

For more information, contact your faculty director, graduate fellows, the AC, an RA, or college council member. We want to give and get plenty of ideas from these visitors!

 

SCHEDULE

All sessions OPEN, unless otherwise noted

Tuesday, January 12th

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm       Arrival at Kissam Center

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm       Tour of WaM

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm    Take-out dinners at Kissam Kitchen (Mastercard and VISA accepted) and carry up to Moore Faculty Apartment

Wednesday, January 13th

7:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast at Kissam Kitchen (Mastercard and VISA accepted)

8:30 am – 9:45 am WaM overview, including Community Development Plan (A105c)

9:45 am – 10:00 am break

10:00 am – 11:15 am Program Assessment (A105c)

11:15 am – 12:30 pm Tour of Vanderbilt Campus (meet at Kissam info desk)

12:30 pm – 1:15 pm Lunch at The Ingram Commons (cash, Mastercard, Visa accepted)

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm The first-year experience (Commons Center Conference Room)

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Application Processes, Study Abroad (A105c)

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Overview of Honors Residential College (Kissam Classroom, C216)

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Role-specific dinner and breakouts

• Student-only breakouts (Student Councils of HRC, Warren, and Moore student councils and other interested students) (Kissam MPR)
• Faculty and Professional Staff (open to all residential faculty and staff) (B503). TENTATIVE, depending on response – there is an important Chancellor Roundtable on Climate Change from 5:00 – 6:30 that some of us will attend, as well as faculty recruiting conflicts at Blair. PLEASE RSVP IF INTERESTED
• Grad Fellows (HRC, WaM, other LLCs) (B106)

7:00 pm Free time, with possible trips off campus

Thursday, January 14^th

7:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast at Kissam Kitchen (Mastercard and VISA accepted)

8:30 am – 9:45 am TBD (e.g., application processes, academic/residential interactions, HRC/WaM joint projects)

10:00 am – 11:00 am Meet with Vice Provost Cynthia Cyrus, Dean of Students Mark Bandas, Randy Tarkington, Senior Director of Residential Education, and Traci Ray, Director of Residential Education (Closed) (A105c)

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Lunch at Rand (cash, Mastercard, Visa accepted)

12:00 pm Depart

Hosts:

Moore College Personnel: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/collegehalls/personnel/moore-personnel.php

Warren College Personnel: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/collegehalls/personnel/warren-personnel.php

Moore College Council: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/collegehalls/colleges/moore/student-governance.php

Warren College Council http://www.vanderbilt.edu/collegehalls/colleges/warren/warren-college-council.php

Dean of the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons: http://commons.vanderbilt.edu/facultyandstaff/dean.php