Who We Are

Community Advisors are student staff members who are the primary resources for students living in residence. The CA’s live in McTaggart-Cowan Hall, Shell House, Towers, and the Townhouse complex. Some of the responsibilities of a CA include: providing educational, social and recreational programming; planning floor activities; providing individual advising and counselling referral; assisting in the general administration of the residence; serving as a role model for residents; and explaining, addressing, and reporting community standards, policies and regulations.

Area Coordinators are the direct supervisors of each residence area. As full-time students, they take on para-professional duties such as lower-level discipline, administration tasks, and weekly staff individual check-ins.

Residence Life Coordinators are professional staff that work and live in the residences and maintain a presence on campus during non-business hours, weekends, and holidays. They supervise and coordinate the work of the CAs and the ACs. They also respond to crisis and disciplinary situations in the residences.

The Residence Life Information Assistant provides administrative services to the Residence Life Area. They act as a recource to the student staff and serve as a primary point of contact for residents in addressing immediate concerns and support needs; they answer the reslife@sfu.ca email and telephone.

The Manager of Residence Life Training Programs is a professional staff member who prepares and plans for the annual training program for the student staff. They also focus on student staff recruitment and evaluation. In addition, the Manager coordinates the Residence Orientation Program.

The Associate Director of Residence Life is responsible for the overall management of the Residence Life unit. They directly supervise the RLCs, the RLIA, and the MRLT). They also act as a resource for all of the Residence Life staff members, liasees with other departments, and manages upper-level discipline cases.