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Rachel Wagner
Clemson University
D. Chase J. Catalano
Virginia Tech
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
Beyond the " Tried and True " :
Emergent and Liberatory Residential Life
and Housing Practices
Higher education in the United States is having a moment. Each day, a new headline
shouts the urgency of redefining what we do and how we do it in the face of renewed
public skepticism. The rising price of higher education, coupled with increasing pressure
to demonstrate that a college education translates to more earning power, has
revived questions about its value (Tough, 2023). Most troublingly, the Supreme Court's
recent decision to roll back affirmative action in college admissions has left many wondering
if the gains made by civil rights activists over the last 70 years were all for
naught (Liptak, 2023).
It would be tempting to think that these questions lie largely outside the confines
of our residential spaces. Because of their centrality to student experience, retention,
and belonging, however, we argue that they are more crucial than ever as sites for also
engendering liberation. Residential life and housing professionals, along with other
key campus leaders (including faculty like us), must assume both guardianship and
leadership of equity practices precisely because residential communities are so essential
to the work of community-building on campus. In short, the tools we have relied
upon-cautious policies informed by neoliberal tropes such as prioritizing heads in
beds-are simply incompatible with building worlds where humanity precedes capital.
What inspired this special issue was our collective awareness of the importance
of elasticity in our thinking, imagining, and practices. This moment demands not an
easy road, but a necessary one. Let us interrupt perennially unquestioned practices in
residential life. Now is the time for critical educators to develop more meaningful tools
for evaluating the effectiveness of practices for historically poorly served populations
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Susan Marine
Merrimack College

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