Samantha Berreondo of Lincoln named Resident Assistant at Saint Michael's College

2010 Dec 21

COLCHESTER, VT (12/21/2010)(readMedia)--

Samantha Berreondo, daughter of Celso and Cesidia Berreondo of Lincoln, was named a resident assistant for the Office of Student Life at Saint Michael's College for the 2010-2011 academic year. Berreondo is a junior, biology major at the liberal arts residential Catholic college located in Burlington, Vermont, one of the top 10 college towns town in America. She graduated from Lin Wood High School before coming to Saint Michael's.

Saint Michael's is a distinctive Catholic liberal arts college that provides education with a social conscience. One of Princeton Review's Best 371 Colleges, Saint Michael's makes it possible for students to participate in independent science research, do real-work internships, get free passes to the best skiing in the East, and live in sight of Vermont's majestic Green Mountains.

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, Berreondo lives in a campus residence hall and is readily available to help students. She oversees and provides guidance as needed or requested for 40 to 50 student residents of the hall.

Berreondo also organizes educational programs, guest speakers, and peer guidance programs for residents of the hall. Supervised by a resident director, She is a paraprofessional official of the college working closely with the residence-life office. Resident assistants, or RAs, as they are called, 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. It is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 371 Colleges, and is included in the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Saint Michael's is one of only 280 colleges and universities nationwide, one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 100 international 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.

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