HEY CAACURH!

On behalf of the National Board of Directors (NBD), I am honored to
announce the finalists for the 2012 NACURH/ACUHO-I (Association of College
and University Housing Officers-International) Program Of the Year (POY)
Award.

This year, we had 14 bids submitted for consideration. After much
deliberation, the NBD has chosen the following two finalists who will
present at NACURH 2012 where a winner will be chosen:

   - *San Francisco State University (PACURH) - There Is No Place Like Home*
      - Program Description: The “No Place Like Home” Project, or NPLH for
      short, is a community service program designed to educate the students of
      San Francisco State University about youth and college age homelessness.
      Occurring during National Volunteer Week, April 10th to 14th 2011, the
      NPLH project focused on raising awareness regarding youth homeless,
      gathering donations for local organizations, and encouraging students to
      volunteer in their community. The NPLH project examined the larger issues
      while focusing on the human stories that are often overlooked when
      discussing homelessness. For when you say the word homeless, most
      individuals come up with a very specific mental image. That of a grizzled
      man, aged well beyond his years, pushing a shopping cart filled with
      his meager belongings. This stereotype, this mistaken preconception was
      something we wanted to change at SF State. The NPLH team wanted to give a
      face to the 6,000 homeless youth under the age of 25 in San
Francisco. Over
      the course of the program, NPLH showed the residents and students of SF
      State that homelessness does not just exist out in Union Square
but that it
      exists in our community, and our universities, and by extension exists in
      our homes.
   - *University of Colorado-Boulder (IACURH) - Talk About Tuesdays*
      - Program Description: The 40th President of the United States,
      Ronald Reagan, once said that "all great change in America begins at the
      dinner table." With that idea as the basis for TAT, RHA worked tirelessly
      in collaboration with Student Affairs and Housing Dining
Services (HDS) to
      develop this program which would combine the feeling of sitting down to
      dinner with friends together with an atmosphere that would encourage
      meaningful conversation on universal and/or relevant topics or
themes. Talk
      About Tuesdays (TAT), was designed as a large scale collaboration between
      several different organizations including HDS, Student Affairs, and RHA.
      The inspiration behind the program arose from the desire to
bring together
      university students, staff, faculty and Boulder community members in a
      space conducive to learning from each other, engaging in
conversation with
      each other, and making real, personal, and lasting connections with other
      members of the community.

If you are attending NACURH 2012, we encourage you to attend these
presentations.

Congrats to both schools and to all those schools that submitted bids!

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One Region - One Vision - One Pride

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CURTIS J. CLARK
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Regional Director
Central Atlantic Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls
(CAACURH)
National Association of College and University Residence Halls, Inc.
(NACURH Inc.)
E-Mail: ca_direc...@nacurh.org
Regional Website: http://www.caacurh.nacurh.org/
National Website: http://www.nacurh.org/
Phone: (872) 222-8748

 The National Association of College and University Residence Halls,
Incorporated, recognizes living on campus as an integral part of the
college experience, and therefore strives to be the organization of choice
for residence hall leaders by providing comprehensive resources for college
and university students seeking to create the ultimate residence hall
environment and experience.

NACURH is the leading national organization advocating for the interests
and welfare of residence hall students, while also providing opportunities
for their personal growth and development. It is an organization of
students committed to developing leadership, honoring diversity,
recognizing achievement, as well as stimulating engagement and involvement
among students who reside in college and university residence halls.
Through regional and national programs and services, NACURH provides
leadership opportunities for students, shares residence hall programming
resources and best practices, and coordinates activities with appropriate
professional associations and business partners.

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