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CONVERSATIONS

Term Limits
Members discuss how setting term limits on the hall director
position enhances or detracts from the work done in this position.

by Camille Perlman

Hall directors: those entry-level, live-in
professionals who are the glue for
many a community and program.
Their job description has been under
scrutiny in recent years with discussions of time-keeping and salary
thresholds under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In this discussion,
members talk through the pros and
cons of adding term limits to this position. Some institutions already do this,
so what benefits are they seeing? Overall, how would term limits reshape this
position in the future?

KNOWLEDGE
DOMAINS
in this article

Participants in this conversation are
Demarcus Merritt, Sr., assistant director for residence life at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro; Kathy
Bush Hobgood, executive director of
university housing and dining and
assistant vice president for student
affairs at Clemson University in South
Carolina; Lauren Shulman, coordinator for selection, training, and development for residence life at Colorado
State University in Fort Collins; Vik
Arunkumar, associate director of the
department of university housing at
Texas Woman's University in Denton;

and Temetria Hargett, associate director for training and assessment for the
department of residential life at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Talking Stick: What has been your
experience with the practice of term
limits for entry-level positions?

Demarcus Merritt, Sr.: Personally, I
have set informal term limits in entrylevel positions I've served in over my
career, as it was advice heeded from
a plethora of mentors regarding the

Human Resources
Examine and implement staffing structures and organizational plans to meet department and institutional
mission and goals.



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Contents
Vision
Just In
Calendar
Your ACUHO-I
Transitions
Academic Initiatives
Human Resources
Regroup
Next Wave Sustainability
A Philosophical Fit
Conversations
First Takes
Around Student Affairs
New Members
Snapshot
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