Community Councils

What is Community Council?

It’s simple: our Community Councils are the heart of community in on-campus residence halls and the core of our organization. When the event idea you had and shared with Community Council Officers comes to light a few weeks later and engages an entire floor or when the board game you knew would make your floor lounge better finally arrives after passing a bill for one, that’s Community Council working at full capacity.

A Community Council is one of 15 groups within RHA that operates within one of a few residential communities across campus. Community Councils are responsible for planning events for their communities, providing opportunities for residents to provide input on how their Community Council’s semesterly budget is spent, and advocating for residents. As part of our organization’s Legislative Branch, Community Councils host weekly meetings to pass legislation through bills that affects their residents. In a typical year, our Community Councils work with RAs and Hall Directors to plan over 10 events and activities for their communities, pass and fund over 100 bills—each providing funding for other residents and RAs to host additional events for residents—and introduce hundreds of residents to one another.

Community Councils are designated as either a Hall or Area Council. Hall Councils are made up of first-year experience halls while Area Councils are made up of larger, upperclassman halls. This designation is due to the type of programming that works best for these communities based on their population make-up. Each type still provides the same community building and fun events!

If you live on campus, you’re part of a Community Council, and you have a vote and say in how your community functions over the next year. Do you think your floor should have a weekly ice cream social? Want the Department of Housing and Residence Life to know that your entire building supports the implementation of a new sustainability initiative in residence halls? Think that you should have a field day between neighboring residence halls to determine which building is supreme? Community Council is the place to start doing all of those things.

How does Community Council business work?

Our Community Council Officers

Community Council Officers, or CCOs, make Community Councils possible—they’re on the ground, in our residence halls, building community on a daily basis. Each Community Council has at least four coordinators: a Meetings Coordinator, Communications Coordinator, Finance Coordinator, and an Events Coordinator. While each Coordinator has specific duties related to the core operations of their area Council and specific to their unique role, the whole Coordinating Board works together as a team to collectively enhance their community’s residential student experience. Each Community Council will be advised by their respective Hall Director. These officers are elected annually in the fall and serve through the end of the spring semester.

SPECIAL NOTE: Each Area Council has the autonomy to elect Building Representatives based on specialized needs within each community.

Find Your Community Council

Use the dropdown tabs below to find information on each of our 15 Community Councils. Each tab includes Community Council meeting times, locations, Community Council Officer contact information, and building composition.