In
American higher education, a residential fellow usually refers to a paid administrator who supervises a given "area" of a
campus residential system. The RF is responsible for, among other things, the
residence assistants under his or her jurisdiction, and serves as the true liaison between residents and the administration. RFs often hold judgmental power over grievances or violations with the school's policies, and hand out fines to students who have been documented.
Examples
At
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
, resident fellows are graduate students, and have a role similar to an undergraduate
resident assistant
A resident assistant (RA), also known by a variety of other names, is a trained peer leader who coordinates activities in residence halls in colleges and universities, mental health and substance abuse residential facilities, or similar establishm ...
.
At
Stanford University, resident fellows are faculty who live on campus.
References
Education in the United States
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