By Brinda Patel
Staff Writer
Residential Education and Housing combined with Dining Services this summer. The fusion aims to address student needs related to housing, meal plans or campus living holistically, rather than through multiple administrative channels, according to Sean Stallings, the College’s vice president of Student Affairs.
This realignment will “enhance services and create an even stronger housing and dining program,” said Tina Tormey, the director of Residential Education, Housing and Dining, in an email statement to The Signal. Tormey said she is “excited to have this opportunity and continue to move the needle on our dining program.”
Because meal sign-ups are done through the MyHousing portal, which is where Residential Education and Housing manages billing and residential questions, Tormey said this shift “made a lot of sense.”
The College’s Residential Education and Housing website provides resources for residential students, including on and off campus housing applications, meal plans and opening and closing schedules. Information about residential facilities and semester openings/closings are also available. As of this semester, the online section now includes dining information.
Coordinating ResEd & Housing and dining operations ensures that student needs related to housing, meal plans or campus living are addressed holistically rather than through multiple administrative channels.
The combination comes after Karen Roth, the previous executive director of auxiliary and contract services and Audrey Perotti, the previous director of auxiliary services, both retired within the past year. Their retirements left vacancies in Dining Services and provided an opportunity for operational efficiency, according to Stallings.
This collaboration was not a new initiative, according to Stallings. Dining was once combined with Residential Education and Housing under his leadership “a few years ago,” but the Division of Student Affairs moved away from the structure “to accommodate workload bandwidth.”
“We are able to go back to a structure we have long felt aligned our priorities,” Stallings said.
