RISE: Resources for Incoming Student Engagement
What is the RISE Initiative?
The purpose of RISE is to provide a community setting for all students, faculty, and staff in an inclusive environment that emphasize support for academic, professional, and social success.
Benefits of a RISE Initiative at ESU...
The RISE initiative (previously named the Residential College Experience) is designed to engage all College of Education and College Business and Management students, including residents and commuters, as a community by providing the following academic, professional, and social supports:
- Mandatory inclusion for all incoming first year and transfer students
- Comprehensive support to enable students to smoothly transition to life as a Warrior.
- Student Success Coaches assigned and stationed within the residential hall who provide personalized support on a variety of student needs.
- Vetted professional speaker series to support professionalism, career development, and networking.
- Course delivery is located in the residential hall, providing students with ease of access to first-year courses and faculty.
- Social events monthly to connect and engage like-minded students.
- Self-assessment questionnaires with structured assignments to help students ask for and get the help they need as they make their way through college.
What Students are Saying about the RISE initiative
- “I’m more aware of events and it is easier to make friends. Also, having a roommate who helps me study is beneficial.”
- “One of my classes is in my residential building, and our dean stops by weekly.”
- “It’s a good environment for studying as everyone here is my major or something similar so I can ask questions if need be.”
- “I have gotten so many opportunities living here, and I also met a lot of great people. I like that it is a safe space for commuters who have classes as well so we can spend time working on projects or just talking.”
- “I was able to make friends within my major, connect with people who had similar interests, and had a place I could go to study. It is also nice because my teachers are easy to find.”
RISE: Resource for Incoming Student Engagement
The RISE initiative at Lenape and Hawthorne Halls is designed to provide inclusive support to all COED and COBM students as well as education majors from the College of Arts and Sciences and Health Sciences. Whether a student lives on campus or commutes, RISE provides all the support needed for its students.
The goal of RISE is to embrace student needs and provide meaningful interactive opportunities between faculty, staff, community stakeholders, and students to ensure success for all. First year students living on campus will have rooms reserved for them in Lenape and Hawthorn Halls.
- Programming
- Fall Kickoff, Welcome Week activities, Lecture Series, technology workshops, professional panel discussions, degree program support, social events, etc.
- Student/Affiliated Organizations
- College of Education: Student PSEA, Kappa Delta Pi, Council for Exceptional Students, Best Buddies, Autism Speaks U, and Sigma Pi Epsilon Delta.
- College of Business and Management: Enactus, Sigma Beta Phi, Accounting Society, American Marketing Association, Entrepreneurship Club, Investment Club, Human Resource Management Club
Contact Us
Contact Information
- Campus Address
- Rosenkrans East 123
- Phone:
- (570) 422-3377
- Fax:
- (570) 422-3506 (Fax)
- Title of Department Leader
- Dean College of Education
- Name
- Brooke Langan
- E:
- blangan1@esu.edu
