Leadership by example
House Dons are University faculty, staff members, or senior students living in each residence who are responsible for the operation of the house and who strive to further the academic and educational goals of the Residence Community in general.
Responsible to the Director, Residential Life, the Don is a live-in position working with a House Team of selected (Proctors) and elected (House Committee) leaders. The Don is responsible for creating and maintaining a positive living environment within the House—one which supports the development of (primarily) undergraduate student residents. The Don’s focus is on facilitating the development of the students in the House, both individually through personal interaction, referrals and mentoring and collectively through programming. The Don is the leader on in-House issues (conduct/discipline, initial crisis intervention, roommate concerns) ; Dons also work to maintain strong links to other Houses--for instance through the Board of Dons, to Residence community at large--including the Coordinator, and to the larger University community, through their non-residence University affiliations.
