2025-2026 RA Process Timeline:

• Applications available Friday, August 30, 2024, on https://uconn.erezlife.com.
• Applications due Sunday, December 1, 2024, at 11:59pm
• Application Screening (grades, conduct, housing, and application content): December 2024
• Candidate Status Notification regarding whether the candidate will be invited an interview: By end of the day on Friday, January 24, 2025
• New RA Interviews: Monday, February 3, 2025 – Friday, February 14, 2025
• Candidate Status Notification regarding whether the candidate is hired, an alternate, or no longer eligible: end of day on Friday, March 7, 2025

To be eligible for the RA position, all candidates MUST follow the same timeline for housing as all other UConn students.

• The 2025-2026 Housing Application is due February 14, 2025 – ALL RA Candidates MUST APPLY for housing by this date.

Changing from Storrs to Stamford:

• You must continue to be eligible to live on-campus (must complete the online housing application and be approved for Campus Change by the February 9, 2024 due date).
• You will complete the 2024-2025 Stamford RA application. (If you are waiting to hear back about your campus change application, we recommend applying to both, Storrs and Stamford campuses)
• You will be invited to interview at the Stamford campus

Changing from Stamford to Storrs:

• You must be living on campus at Stamford for Fall 2024
• You must continue to be eligible to live on-campus (must complete the online housing application and be approved for Campus Change by the February 9, 2024 due date).
• You will complete the 2024-2025 Storrs RA application
• You will be invited to interview at the Storrs campus
• You will not participate in the Stamford group interview process. (If you are waiting to hear back about your campus change application, we recommend applying to both, Storrs, and Stamford campuses)

2025-2026 Storrs RA position description

2025-2026 Stamford RA position description

Housing Criteria:

• All candidates must have lived on-campus for 1 or more full semesters at either the Stamford or Storrs campus by end of the fall 2024 semester.
• In addition, candidates must submit their on-campus housing application for 2025-2026 by February 14, 2025. If you have not applied for housing or are currently on the waiting list, you will be ineligible to be an RA for 2025-2026.  You MUST be guaranteed for housing for fall 2025 to be eligible to be hired.
• If you don’t currently live on campus and apply for housing, you may be placed on the waiting list for housing, which will make you ineligible for the RA position.
• Students who anticipate campus-changing for fall 2025 must also be sure to follow the appropriate steps in the process. In addition, students who are approved to campus change must be granted housing for the campus to which they are changing.
• Students who fulfill all housing requirements may live on campus for up to 8 semesters: including time as a RA. If you have lived on campus for 7 or more semesters at the end of the fall 2024 semester, you will not be eligible to be a RA for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Student Academic Status:

• Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States
• Earn at least sophomore status by the time of employment (fall 2025) and be a full-time, degree-seeking undergraduate student enrolled at the Storrs campus for the entire employment period.
• Maintain a 2.50 cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) at the time of application, and throughout the process. Incomplete/missing grades must be completed by the date on the University's Academic Calendar for spring 2025. Students on Scholastic Probation/Subject to Dismissal will be ineligible to continue in the process.
  • It should be noted that if a student is offered an RA position for the 2025-2026 academic year and later placed on scholastic probation or are subject to dismissal after the close of the spring 2025 semester, they will no longer be eligible to be an RA and will be removed from the RA position.

Community Membership Status:

• Uphold the University's Responsibilities of Community Life: The Student Code and the On-Campus Housing Contract. All students with a student conduct history will be subject to review. Students who are on University Probation during the semesters of application review or interviews are not eligible to interview. Students who were found responsible for any incidents in the current academic year or during the application and interviewing process will not be eligible to interview or continue in the process.

Employment Period:

• New RAs will move into their fall 2025 assignment on Sunday, August 10, 2025, and RA training will begin on Monday, August 11, 2025.
• RAs must attend all sessions during RA Training (August 11, 2025 – August 20, 2025 and January 14, 2026 – January 16, 2026).
• RAs must work during opening weekend (Thursday, August 21, 2025 – Sunday, August 24, 2025 and January 17, 2026 – January 19, 2026).
• RAs cannot serve as Wow leaders or hold other employment during this time.
• The employment period is both fall 2025 and spring 2026 semesters. Candidates who have applied for--but will not know whether they are accepted to--education abroad or other semester long University programs may still apply since the RA application due date typically proceeds the notification of acceptance to semester-long University programs.

Interest in RA Position for Honors, Learning Communities, and/or Special Interest Communities:

• Candidates who are interested in Learning Communities (LCs), Honors, or Special Interest Communities(American Sign Language, Gender Inclusive, Husky Village, Substance Free and Veterans) will also need to meet the criteria noted below.

• • Must meet all criteria noted under Position Qualifications, Position Screening Criteria, Student Academic Status, Community Membership, and Employment Period.
  • The application will allow the student to indicate their interest in only one Learning Community, one Honors Community or one Special Interest Community.
  • If a candidate is invited to interview, the candidate will have another opportunity to indicate interest.
  • Must have successfully completed the first-round interview process.
  • Priority consideration is also given to those candidates who have already lived in the community as a student.

Position Compensation:

• • RAs will earn a housing waiver for their RA room.

• • RAs will also earn a stipend of $5,600 for the 2025-2026 academic year. The stipend is paid out biweekly.
  • RAs who are on-duty during break periods will be paid separately for the actual days worked.
  • RAs are responsible for paying individually for their tuition, fees, parking pass, and meal plan (if applicable).
  • RAs placed in suite style or traditional style housing are responsible for choosing and paying for a meal plan.  The meal plan is only optional for those who are placed in an apartment style spaces.
  • No academic credit may be earned for the RA position.

Position Benefits: (These are only some of the benefits!)

• • Multi-faceted leadership skills
  • Experience working with people from differing backgrounds; understanding the need to be open to those whose identities may be different than one’s own
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Strong time management skills
  • Written and oral communication skills
  • Honesty and integrity
  • Crisis management experience
  • Understanding the nature of working in/on teams.
  • Relationship-building skills, as well as helping others build relationships

• Log in to uconn.erezlife.com
• Click on View available job postings
• Choose the appropriate application (2025-2026 RA Application)
• Click on the green Apply Now button
• Read the 2025-2026 RA position description
• Select the appropriate applicant group: Storrs-New Resident Assistant

Reach out to Beth Helinski, Assistant Director for Residential Student Staff Engagement, for any questions.
beth.helinski@uconn.edu