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OACUHO 2013-2014 Moving Forward
President’s Corner Hello OACUHO Members, It was so wonderful to connect with so many of you last week at the Annual OACUHO Spring Conference at Queens University. I would like to take one final opportunity to thank Queens for hosting. They did a great job. It was a wonderful professional meeting and a great opportunity to network and develop our professional community. The 13-14 Board stayed at Queens until Friday afternoon planning and strategizing our year. We will be meeting face to face again in June at Western University where we will turn our vision into an action plan. Nothing is more motivating that the energy we all picked up from you at the conference. For those of you that were not at the Spring conference we hope you can join us at our many upcoming meetings. This summer King’s University College is hosting a Mid-Level Training Institute. In the Fall Brock will be hosting our Fall Business Meeting with a theme of universal design. We know the Spring conference is not always convenient timing for all functional areas of housing. I struggled being away this year as I recently took over management of the summer housing operation. OACUHO is dedicated to representing all functional areas of university and college housing. We hope all housing professional can join us at a meeting, pd opportunity, or webinar this year.
Last year our President Jen Gonzales challenged all members of the association with our #oacuho360 initiative. Asking the association “How might you serve the association?” for the 360 days we are not at the Spring conference. This year we will be keeping with the #oacuho360 theme. However the meaning has evolved slightly. Our goal is to represent all functional areas of student housing – a 360 representation of our profession. Our goal is also to enlist each and every Ontario university and college housing operation as a member of OACUHO – again a 360 representation of our profession. In my Restalks presentation at the Spring Conference I had several key messages. The most important being that no matter what other conferences you attend or organizations you belong to – we want you to feel that OACUHO is your professional home. I hope all of you had the same emotional reaction I did when Lynn Burritt accepted her OACUHO Lifetime Achievement Award at the closing banquet. To me there is no more powerful sign that OACUHO is my professional home. Thank you for being engaged professionals. I am awaiting invitations to all of your institutions. Thank you! Chad Nuttall OACUHO President 2013-2014
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