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Michaela Rivers
  • Psychology
  • Class of 2014
  • Dalton, MA

Michaela Rivers of Dalton selected to be an RA (Resident Assistant) at Saint Michael's College

2013 Sep 26

Michaela Rivers, daughter of James and JoAnn Rivers of Dalton was selected for the 2013-2014 academic year to be a Resident Assistant for the Office of Student Life at Saint Michael's College, in Burlington, Vermont, one of the top 10 college towns in the country.

Rivers, a senior psychology major graduated from Wahconah Regional High School before coming to Saint Michael’s.

Resident Assistants are selected from the entire Saint Michael's undergraduate student population on the basis of faculty and staff recommendations. They display excellent leadership abilities, maturity and likelihood of being good role models for their peers. As a resident assistant, he or she lives in a campus residence hall and is readily available to help students. RAs (as they are called) oversee and provide guidance as needed or requested for 40 to 50 student residents of the hall.

They also organize educational programs, guest speakers, and peer guidance programs for residents of the hall. Supervised by a Resident Director, the RA is a paraprofessional official of the college working closely with the residence-life office. Resident Assistants work to support and implement the objectives, policies, and regulations of the Saint Michael's College Office of Student Life.

About Saint Michael’s

At Saint Michael’s College www.smcvt.edu students are challenged to do their best, find their niche, take on opportunities to grow, and immerse themselves in academic pursuits. Intellectual rigor, compassion, teamwork, caring—these characterize a Saint Michael’s experience. A residential Catholic college, Saint Michael’s is steeped in the social justice spirit of its founding priests, the Edmundites. Saint Michael’s is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top 10 college towns. Headed by President John J. Neuhauser, the college has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students. Identified by the Princeton Review, 2014 as one of the nation’s Best 378 Colleges, and included in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2014, Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Goldwater, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants and awards. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report rankings.