Currier named R.A.
COLCHESTER, Vt. – Jessica Currier, daughter of Richard and Susan Currier, of Presque Isle, was named a resident assistant for the Office of Student Life at Saint Michael’s College for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Currier’s a senior political science and religious studies double major at the liberal arts residential Catholic college located in the Burlington area of Vermont. She graduated from Presque Isle High School before coming to Saint Michael’s.
Resident assistants are selected from the entire Saint Michael’s undergraduate student population on the basis of faculty and staff recommendations. They display excellent leadership abilities, maturity and likelihood of being good role models for their peers. As a resident assistant, Currier lives in a campus residence hall and is readily available to help students. She oversees and provides guidance as needed or requested for 40 to 50 student residents of the hall.
Currier also organizes educational programs, guest speakers and peer guidance programs for residents of the hall. Supervised by a resident director, Currier is a paraprofessional official of the college working closely with the residence-life office. Resident assistants, or RAs, as they are called, work to support and implement the objectives, policies and regulations of the Saint Michael’s College Office of Student Life.
