Hello Delaware/Maryland!

Happy 2014! We wanted to start out the New Year by beginning to periodically send out a newsletter for happenings in our region as well as in MACUHO. Please check out our first issue!

Your Regional Coordinators,

Chris Ferraro & Tricia Walmsley

Meet Your Delaware/Maryland Regional Coordinators!

Tricia Walmsley - Mount St. Mary’s University

Hello Delaware and Maryland!

Happy 2014 and Spring semester! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are geared up for the start of the new semester. This email is twofold! I first wanted to take a second to introduce myself as the New Regional Coordinator for Maryland and Delaware! My name is Tricia Walmsley and I currently work at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. I moved back to this region a year ago after spending two years in South Carolina and am very excited to be "home” again! I am looking forward to working with the region in a variety of ways over the next several years! Chris and I have some ideas for this coming year but want to know what you want as well! Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me! I can be reached at walmsley@msmary.edu!

Chris Ferraro - Towson University

Greetings Delaware and Maryland!

I hope your Spring semesters and new year is off to a great start! I am excited to be returning as one of your Regional Coordinators for this year! For those of you I have not been able to connect with yet, I currently work at Towson University just North of Baltimore. I have been here 2.5 years working as a Residence Life Coordinator. I moved to Towson from the Northeast where I earned my Bachelors at UConn and my Masters at Springfield College in Massachusetts. Oddly enough, I am currently working on a second Masters now at Towson. I am looking forward to a great year for our region and welcome any ideas or questions you may have about MACUHO! Please email me at CFerraro@towson.edu. Stay tuned for upcoming events this Spring!

Job Hunting or Recruiting??

Check Out the Mid-Atlantic Placement Conference (MAPC)!

February 20-21, 2014

We have exciting information from the MAPC planning committee!

Please pass this on to colleagues and friends who will either be job searching or looking to fill a vacancy in their office this coming year!

Are you an employer looking to fill a critical staff vacancy?

Perhaps you’re a candidate looking to land a phenomenal Residence Life position for the coming academic year?

If either of these situations pertains to you, the Mid-Atlantic Placement Conference (MAPC) is the perfect opportunity for you!

For the past eighteen years, housing professionals in the Mid-Atlantic Region have taken advantage of one of the most accessible and cost-efficient recruiting and job placement opportunities. For the third year in a row, MAPC will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania. You will experience an outstanding two day placement conference for a fraction of the cost of those national conferences. You’ll meet a great number of employers seeking to find the right candidate to join their Res Life teams. You’ll find many qualified and talented candidates looking to embark on a new career opportunity. And for those "MAPC Rookies,” you’ll experience a placement conference in a relaxed environment among MACUHO colleagues and friends.

Online registration is open until THIS Thursday February 13, 2014.

Onsite registration will be available on Wednesday February 19, 2014.

For more on registration costs and hotel information please go to our website http://www.macuho.org/group/mapc.

Please let us know if you have questions!

Neighborhood Tours:
From Walls to Halls 2013
Registration now open - and FREE!

The MACUHO Housing & Facilities Operations committee has scheduled our annual "Neighborhood Tours: From Walls to Halls” for Friday, April 5. These tours are designed to allow housing facilities managers and residential life professionals to tour neighboring schools' newly constructed/remodeled and/or innovative state of the art facilities in residential life. We have selected four premiere institutions in different parts of the region to give everyone an opportunity to participate in this endeavor.

Lebanon Valley College (Annville, PA)

Marshall University (Huntington, WV)

New Jersey Institute of Technology-NJIT (Newark, NJ)

NYU-DC (Washington, DC)

Each campus will provide a tour of their facility gearing it towards housing and residence life operations and other general information about the program. The tours are free and lunch is provided at no cost. In addition, a question and answer period will be provided after the tours. The program is between 10:00am & 2:00pm.
To learn more about the event or to register for a tour follow the link below:http://www.macuho.org/group/WallsToHalls

If you have any questions, please contact the Housing & Facilities Operations Chair, Conal Carr (cfc4@psu.edu).

 

Dan Sym
Community Director
UMBC - University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Where you went to school: My undergrad was in Communication at Geneseo State University (NY), and my Master's was in College Student Development from Appalachian State University (NC)

What are you most passionate about in the field: I am most passionate about helping students reflect on their experiences to help them make meaning

Something exciting you are planning to do this summer: Lots of local day trips in and around the region, exploring a few places I've wanted to for years, but never had time to

Something fun that you do outside of your job  or something we should know about you: I am a huge baseball fan, and enjoy attending games -- my ultimate goal is to visit every stadium

Linda Carey
Director of Housing Assignment Services
University of Delaware

Where you went to school: Bachelors from American University

What are you most passionate about in the field:  Interaction with students and great colleagues

Who has been your biggest influence in your career:  David Butler, former Executive Director of Housing and Residence Life...He is still my mentor.

What book should someone read (fiction or non-fiction) :  HELP by Kathryn Stockett

Something exciting you are planning to do this summer:  ACUHO in New Orleans and of course the beach

Something fun that you do outside of your job  or something we should know about you:  I love to sing and write poems for my immediate staff.  Hallmark here I come!!!

As a CHO do you have any advice for our membership?:  Take time to reenergize yourself  and smell the roses.  Whether you do that by vacations or attending conferences or pursuing your hobbies, make time for yourself!

A Maryland native, Joe attended Villa Julie College, now Stevenson University, receiving a Bachelor’s in Film 2006. In 2009, after completing his Master’s in Counseling at Shippensburg University, Joe joined Towson University as a Residence Life Coordinator in the Department of Housing and Residence Life. Joe enjoys having the opportunity to help students grow and discover who they are as individuals and as leaders and also how much he gets to learn about himself while working with those students.