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• Puget Sound Lives Green
• A Quick Note to People Who Work in Residence
• From Northeast to Northwest: My First NWACUHO Experience

ACUHO-I NP Case Study 2010

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2010 New Professional/New to the Region Booklet

Once registered please reserve your hotel room through the Red Lion using the proses described below.

1. www.redlion.com
2. In the “Find your Hotel” box on the right hand side of the screen, you will want to click on the “Other Search Options”, which will be a link in all black letters.
3. This will take you directly to the make your reservation screen.
4. Type in Yakima for the city, and Washington for the state.
5. Select your check-in and check-out dates, which will be directly under the city information.
6. Then you will want to scroll down the screen until you see two boxes, one will say, “Qualified Discounts” and the other will say, “Special Rates”.
7. You want to click the, “Special Rates”, and then click, “Group/Convention Code”.
8. Enter in the Group Code, which is: COLL0204
9. It will take you to the Available Rooms that are in the Group Block.

• ProgramMatrix
• ProgramSchedule

Remember to register by January 16th to avoid the late registration fee.

The SHO will be from February 5-7, 2009. The application is available On-Line in conjunction with the Annual Conference registration at: http://www.regonline.com/nwacuho2010a

The Senior Housing Officer Institute (SHO) provides an opportunity for a limited number of current or aspiring to be Senior Housing Officers to network with one another, to learn from several outstanding faculty speaking on critical issues that SHO’s face across all campus’ and to receive more professional development focused towards mid-level and senior level participants attending the NWACUHO conference at Yakima, Washington.  The list of topics being covered at this year’s SHO are:

1)      Self Advocacy and My Career Path in Higher Education

2)      Residence Life beyond Living In

3)      The “other” side of Housing – conference and dining services

4)      Legal Issues in Higher Education

5)      Managing Human and Fiscal Resources

The cost of the SHO Institute is $150, which includes all necessary materials, meals from Friday Dinner through lunch on Sunday. Participants are responsible for their own lodging.  Arrangements can be made through the Red Lion Hotel in Yakima.  The Institute conveniently begins the Friday evening BEFORE the annual NWACUHO conference allowing you to arrive two days early to attend both events.  Space is limited to 20 participants.  Please fill out the online application and 4 Short essay questions.

Short Questions: (under 2000 words)

• What motivated you to apply for Senior Housing Officers?
• What do you hope to gain from the SHO Institute?
• What are your professional goals, short and long term?
• What areas do you feel you need more training to be an effective SHO?

Submit application and supplemental material on-line by January 8, 2009.

If you are interested in attending the conference please register at https://www.regonline.com/nwacuho2010a

If you are interested in exhibiting at the conference please register at https://www.regonline.com/nwacuho2010e