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Rosemary Rogers
  • Music and Business Administration
  • Saint Albans, VT

Rosemary Rogers of Saint Albans Named a Resident Assistant at Saint Michael's College

2011 Oct 7

Rosemary Rogers, daughter of Barent and Kathleen Rogers of Saint Albans, was selected for the 2010-2011 academic year to be a Resident Assistant for the Office of Student Life at Saint Michael's College, a liberal arts residential Catholic college located in Burlington, Vermont, one of the top 10 college towns in the country.

Rogers, a sophomore music major, graduated from Bellows Free Academy 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 resident assistants, they live in a campus residence hall and are readily available to help students. RAs (as they are called) oversee and provides guidance as needed or requested for 40 to 50 student residents of the hall.

They also organize educational programs, guest speakers, and peer guidance and alcohol education 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.

Learn What Matters at Saint Michael's College, The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college, www.smcvt.edu. Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns. Identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 373 Colleges, and included in the 2012 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.