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Residential Assistant Exchange
What is the Residential Assistant Exchange?
Residential Assistant (RA) Exchange is one of the special exchange opportunities provided by the National Student Exchange (NSE). Some NSE colleges and universities facilitate the exchange of resident assistants in their institution’s residence life program. This option requires advanced planning and an additional application process, which is due in late November. Individual campus parameters, remuneration, and a contact for more information are available at www.nse.org -> Students -> RA Exchange.
What is the National Student Exchange?
The National Student Exchange (NSE) is a program for undergraduate student exchange within the United States and Canada. Instead of crossing oceans, NSE students cross state, regional, provincial, and cultural borders. Participating in NSE can be exhilarating, culturally enriching, and one of the most significant experiences of your undergraduate education. The changes seen in attitudes, understanding of other people in other settings, flexibility, maturity, self-confidence, and decision-making are similar to the experiences of students who study internationally.
Like study abroad, volunteerism, internships, service learning, and research, NSE is an enhancement of your undergraduate program, demonstrating to graduate schools that you possess the flexibility to plan, follow through, and go beyond the expected.
NSE provides students with affordable and practical opportunities to experience new and diverse settings in which to study and live. NSE has found that exchange within the U.S. and Canada can be just as exhilarating and culturally enriching as international study and one of the most significant experiences of a student's undergraduate education. NSE students access new academic options, immerse themselves in a different environment, search for graduate schools or future employment, acquire life skills, experience life from a different point of view, and expand their personal and educational perspectives.
What are some of the benefits of the RA Exchange?
- experience life on another university campus for a full academic year
- benefit from NSE's tuition reciprocity
- work as an RA on another campus
- interact with new students, faculty and administrators
- explore another part of the country
- learn about another housing and residence life department
How much does it cost to apply for the RA Exchange?
At LSU, the application fee for a national exchange is $238 (charged to your fee bill) and a concurrent enrollment fee of $100 per semester (also charged to your fee bill). There is no additional fee for the RA Exchange option.
Does every U.S. and Canadian university participate in the exchange?
No, approximately 50 universities participate. See the list on the back of this page, and see more about those universities online by visiting http://www.nse.org/sraresponse.asp.
How do I apply to participate in the RA Exchange?
- You must submit an application for the National Student Exchange and an application for the RA exchange. Both must be submitted to your home campus NSE coordinator by November 27, 2009, for exchanges during the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Contact Dawn Humble, the National Student Exchange coordinator at LSU for information on NSE application forms and requirements.
- The RA application is available from your NSE coordinator or here. Students interested in the exchange must complete this application and have a letter of recommendation from a hall director. One original application set and three copies must be submitted to your NSE coordinator by November 27, 2009.
What are the qualifications?
- 2.5 cumulative GPA at the time of application and at the completion of the term prior to exchange
- full-time student at the time of application and in the term prior to exchange
- good standing (academic, financial, and social/behavioral) as defined by the home campus
- be approved by the NSE coordinator for participation in the exchange program
- any additional requirements of the home or host institution
- served successfully as an RA for one academic year before the exchange
- positive letter of reference from the supervising residence life hall director on the home campus
- written permission from the home campus residence life program to participate (see Lynn Kimball)
Campuses that participate in Residential Assistant exchange:
Binghamton University
California State University, Chico
California State University, Fresno
East Tennessee State University
Eastern Illinois University
Eastern Oregon University
Ferris State University
Iowa State University
Keene State College
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Mississippi State University
Northern Arizona University
Oregon State University
Plymouth State University
SUNY College at Buffalo
SUNY Potsdam
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alaska Southeast (Juneau)
University of Alaska
University of Guam
University of Montevallo
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of Rhode Island
University of South Carolina, Columbia
University of South Dakota
University of Utah
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
University of Wyoming
Western Oregon University
Western State College of Colorado
Westfield State College
Winthrop University
Where do I get more information?
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