RPL Info Session 1

Area Coordinators Isaac Albanese, Mitchell Foster, and Sandra Johnson share insight on the RPL role during the February 1, 2021, 9 am EST session.

RPL Info Session 2

Area Coordinators Isaac Albanese, Mitchell Foster, and Sandra Johnson answer students' questions about the RPL role during the February 1, 2021, 3 pm EST session.

Minority Peer Counselors (MPCs)

MPCs have a special emphasis on mentoring and supporting first-year students of color. In addition to the core residential responsibilities, MPCs facilitate campus-wide workshops on race and its intersections with class, gender, sexuality, and other social identities. MPCs’ additional, specialized responsibilities are supervised by the Brown Center for Students of Color (BCSC).

Residential Peer Counselors (RPCs)

RPCs work to foster a sense of community and engagement among students in the first-year residential communities. This position is supervised by Residential Life.

Women Peer Counselors (WPCs)

WPCs work within a cohort model, and in collaboration with the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, to gain foundational knowledge around issues of gender, particularly as it intersects with other markers of identity. In addition to their core residential responsibilities, WPCs host community gatherings at the Sarah Doyle Center, help direct residents to events on campus pertaining to gender, facilitate conversations on topical issues, and collectively program one signature WPC event during spring semester. WPCs’ additional, specialized responsibilities are supervised by the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender.

Community Assistants (CAs)

CAs work closely with fellow staff to support Brown’s philosophy by promoting personal growth, social responsibility, and intellectual development through community-based interactions for their residents. CAs work to foster a sense of community and engagement among students in our sophomore, junior, senior residential communities.

1. Health and Wellness: Providing resources and opportunities for students to enhance their health and well-being.

2. Relationship and Community Building: Creating a living environment that promotes social engagement, individual agency, and mutual respect.

3. Identity and Values: Empowering students to explore their own social identities, practice self-reflection, identify their core values, and achieve a sense of belonging.

4. Diversity and Inclusion: Developing residents' awareness, understanding, and appreciation of people whose life experiences are different from their own.

5. Academic and Professional: Providing students with opportunities to cultivate academic interests and prepare for post-graduate life.

6. Service and Leadership: Preparing students to serve the community, nation, and world as engaged global citizens.

Gender-Inclusive Housing (First-Year Community)

Gender-inclusive housing is for first-year residents who are committed to cultivating a supportive community for queer and transgender students. It involves the intentional pairing of roommates on the basis of gender identity, as opposed to arbitrarily assigning roommates on the basis of sex. The RPL positions eligible for Gender-Inclusive Housing are Minority Peer Counselors (MPCs), Residential Peer Counselors (RPCs), and Women Peer Counselors (WPCs).

Greek and Program Houses (Upper Division Community)

Greek and Program Houses are for sophomores, juniors, and seniors accepted via respective Greek and Program House recruitment and selection processes. Greek organizations include fraternities and sororities recognized at Brown, while Program Houses are centered around a shared interest or identity (e.g. Harambee House, St. Anthony Literary Society, Tech House, etc.). Members must fulfill duties and obligations to remain active in their organization. The Community Assistant is the only RPL position eligible for Greek and Program Houses.

Quiet Hall

Quiet Hall is an environment conducive to sleeping or studying 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No excessive noise is permitted. Those who wish to listen to music or televisions do so with their doors closed and at low volumes. Guests are expected to maintain the same standards of quiet as residents.

Same-Sex Housing

Same-Sex Housing is for students that wish to live in rooms or suites assigned all-female or all-male residents.

Substance-Free Housing

Substance-Free Housing is for students that wish to live in a sober environment. A contract is required, in which residents and by extension their guests agree not to consume or to be under the influence of alcohol or other substances while in the residence hall. In addition they agree to abide by the University's: non-smoking policy, prohibition against illegal drug use, and policy which requires only medically prescribed use of prescription drugs.

450 Brook St. (Wellness Residence)

The Wellness Residence is for students committed to developing and sustaining healthy lifestyles, studying holistic global approaches to wellness, and a developing a greater sense of wellbeing in the Brown community. It will include wellness education and programming, and comprehensive health and wellness services on-site. Per News from Brown this residence hall, included in the new integrated health and wellness center, will house students as early as Summer 2021.

• Must be a full-time undergraduate student.

• Must be in good academic standing during the entire period of appointment.

• Must have no prior history of serious misconduct prior to or during the entire period of appointment.

• Must be a sophomore, junior, or senior when assuming responsibilities.

• Must reside in an assigned single-occupancy room, if appointed.

• Must read and sign RPL Contract and Accountability outline upon acceptance of position, if appointed.

• MPCs: Must have experience or strong interest in activities related to social justice. This may include participating in the Third World Transition Program (TWTP), working with the BCSC in some capacity, or involvement in a social justice based group at Brown.

• WPCs: Must have past experience or strong interest in activities related to social justice, specifically knowledge of sexual and gender identity.