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Administrators plan to replace the RA program with 200 new student positions focused on residential life and professional staff members in residence halls.
Former resident advisers said officials should reverse their decision late last month to cancel the RA program if they don’t reinstate financial benefits previously offered through the program.
More than half a dozen students and former RAs who criticized the move said residents may not build the same trust with professional staff members who will move into buildings to handle student conflicts, and former RAs will lose their residential roles that came with free housing benefits. Former members of the program, which has been suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic, said officials should have consulted with them about the decision because they have been waiting to work as an RA again.