The Office of Campus Life (OCL) at Williams is responsible for directing and advising a number of College programs and services. See below for a description of OCL’s services, programs, and responsibilities, and the correlating team members. For a general staff listing, click here.
Housing and Residential Education
The HRE team provides advisement and support for students’ residential experience, including the selection, training, and ongoing supervision of student residential leaders and their community development and programming responsibilities, all undergraduate student housing assignments and selection processes, data management, room key/code distribution and check-ins/check-outs, and the student storage program in collaboration with Dorm Room Movers. Programs include Life After Williams, Williams After Dark, Lyceum Dinners, Quiet Housing, Co-Op Housing, SwALE Housing, and the TAPSI Housing program. The Assistant Director and Area Coordinators participate in a rotation with several members of the Dean of Students’ office to provide after-hours on-call support for residential life student leaders and Campus Safety Services.
Student Involvement and Events
The Student Involvement and Events team provides advisement and support for Registered Student Organizations (RSOs), Student Government, All-Campus Entertainment (ACE), the Williams Record, and the Yearbook, and they provide logistical support for student-initiated programming and events including advisement, temporary staffing scheduling and coordination, and risk management collaboration with campus colleagues. They facilitate and execute several annual campus-wide student programs, including the big three traditional campus programming weekends (Homecoming, Winter Carnival, Spring Fling), Joyful Moments, the RSO Purple Key Fair, the RSO Jamboree, and others. They oversee Senior Class Events both during the academic year and during Senior Week just prior to commencement weekend. They are responsible for the day-to-day management of the Paresky Center and Goodrich Hall, including usage parameters and prioritization, determination of tech support and staffing needs, furnishings, and vendors, and are responsible for programming at The Log as well as advising and working closely with the student management of the Goodrich Coffee Bar. They are responsible for the EMS room reservations system, both for day-to-day facilitation and overall system management with campus partners and OIT. The Area Coordinators from HRE provide assistance to the SIE team specifically with RSO advising, Senior Class Events, the big three weekends, the Yearbook, All-Campus Entertainment (ACE), and Goodrich Coffee Bar.
Campus Life Leadership and Support
The Senior Associate Dean of Campus Life is responsible for long-term and high level direction, development, assessment, and budget development/management for the Office of Campus Life, and works closely with the Dean of the College, the Senior Associate Dean of Students, the Senior Associate Dean of Academic Engagement, and the Senior Associate Dean for Administration, Finance, and Strategy on cross-departmental and division-wide programs and efforts to support undergraduate students’ co-curricular experience at Williams. The Senior Associate Dean of Campus Life is a key advisor to the Dean of the College, and directly supervises several OCL staff members.
The Financial and Administrative Coordinator oversees Campus Life budgetary and financial paperwork and processes, manages all departmental supplies, equipment, office spaces, and Campus Life Front Desk Assistants, provides advisement and support for FAST (the funding branch of student government), and provides administrative support for the Senior Associate Dean of Campus Life.
