Become an RA/APA


Dear Student Staff Candidate:

The Office of Residential Life at Indiana State University would like to thank you for your interest in a student staff position for the 2013-2014 Academic Year! When you fill out and turn in this application, you are applying for both the Academic Peer Advocate position and the Resident Assistant position. As a department we interview for both positions and then place people into positions based on their qualifications, interviews, and where we think each person would most benefit our students.

The Academic Peer Advocate (APA) position is responsible for the academic transition on all of our first year student floors. This position supports, promotes, and facilitates academic excellence and achievement among our first year students. They are responsible for intentionally reaching out to faculty and getting them involved in the residence halls. Minimum qualifications to be an APA are:


The Resident Assistant (RA) position serves as an advisor for a floor community with major responsibilities including: assisting students with personal problems, interpreting and enforcing housing regulations and University policies, developing positive communities, and providing community building activities. Minimum qualifications to be an RA are:


Both RA and APA candidates will participate in two pre-employment trainings that will take place one day a week during the weeks of February 11th and February 18th. Once your application is turned in, a member of our staff will email you to set up a day and time for your pre-employment training. Pre-employment training will consist of information and activities that will help you learn more about Residential Life, our student staff positions, and your leadership abilities. You will also have to participate in individual interviews that will happen the weekend on February 22nd. As part of the application you will rank which day you would prefer to interview on.

Each part of the Student Staff application is important.  You should pay particular attention to the neatness of your application and the grammatical construction of your essays. Overall application presentation and written work are of particular importance when the Office of Residential Life is making distinctions among many outstanding candidates. Part of this includes your references. Reference forms are available at the link below. Please direct your references to our web page to fill out their reference forms. You must have two references; one MUST be from a Residential Life staff member (Resident Assistant/Academic Peer Advocate/Community Assistant/Leadership Peer Advocate/Assistant Hall Director/Area Director). Your other reference should be from someone who can talk about your leadership experience, work experience, or classroom leadership (Organization Advisor/Boss or Supervisor/Professor/Pastor/etc.)

Applications and references forms are due to the Office of Residential Life no later than noon on Friday, February 1st.

Click Here for Student Staff Application

Click Here for Student Staff Reference Form

Questions????

Contact the Residential Life Office via e-mail at jessica.robinson@indstate.edu or via phone at (812) 237-3993