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RESIDENCE 

LIFE DATA

The Mission Statement of Residence Life

The Office of Residence Life at James Madison University is committed to designing and maintaining a caring environment that encourages academic success, respect, personal growth and responsibility to one's community.

 

The services that are offered are rooted within the following values:

  • Supportive transition to the JMU community

  • Academic achievement

  • Providing positive learning experiences

  • Providing excellent service and accommodations

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

  • Organized move-in and move-out process

  • Accommodates to special requests

  • Enough rooms for all freshmen (not overbooked)

  • Students can live and learn in residential learning communities

  • Flexible with having guests over in dorms

Weaknesses

  • Not all dorms are the same

    • Some have AC, some don’t

    • Some have multiple washers & dryers, some don’t

    • Some are cleaner

  • Some RA’s do not accommodate residents’ needs well enough

Opportunities

  • There is talk about redesigning the village area within a few years. Residence life has the opportunity to make these dorms just as nice as Bluestone/skyline. Over half of the JMU freshmen live in the village.

  • Residence life has the opportunity to hire RA’s who accommodate to freshmen needs better

 

Threats

  • Even if an area like the village is going to be redone, how is residence life going to make up for the unfair advantages of some dorms in the meantime?

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