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Video Online Seminar • Available On-Demand Monday, December 15, 2008 - Friday, January 16, 2009 • $124

Use the time between semesters for professional development! Magna is pleased to offer this seminar on-demand, at your convenience, anytime between December 15, 2008 - January 16, 2009. We've lowered the price considerably to allow you to view it from your home computer, or gather colleagues on campus to watch it together - the price is the same for one person or a whole crowd.

Training resident assistants is essential, given the front-line work they do on behalf of your institution. You can help them do their jobs more effectively by giving them the tools and resources they'll need, and preparing them for situations they may encounter. If your RA training program needs to be updated - or doesn't exist at all - this seminar will give you ideas and tools you can implement this fall.

This comprehensive program will show you how to help your RAs understand the current knowledge on campus threat assessment, applying student development theory to residence hall life, using support services effectively, marketing campus programs to hall residents, and working with "theme" housing and international students.

Brought to you by two experienced residence and student counseling administrators, this program includes a 90-minute video presentation and a set of detailed handouts that you'll use as a reference guide again and again. Together, you'll review how many existing RA training programs work and look at suggestions for best practices, including case studies and role-playing scenarios to use in your own training programs. The presenters will offer their suggestions for additional readings and provide links to web resources with helpful information on these topics.

Knowledge benefits for you:
• Receive tools and tips you can use in your next RA training
• Help RAs work more effectively and confidently
• Learn best practices for training your resident assistants
• Improve your RA training program, or create one

Who should attend:
• Resident directors and assistant resident directors
• Directors of housing
• Student activities staff
• Student affairs administrators
• Directors of residence life

Featured Higher Education Presenters:

Dr. Jason Ebbeling

Dr. Brian Van Brunt

Semester Break Specials When do you have the most time to engage in professional development? When classes are not in session. And we want to help you take advantage of that opportunity with our new Semester Break Specials. We're offering six of our most popular past seminars ON-DEMAND, at a significantly reduced price, from December 15, 2008 through January 16, 2009. Register for all six programs together and you'll get a 25% discount off the price of each one. Click here for more information!

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