Dorm Leadership

Community Diversity Assistants

Community Diversity Assistants (CDAs) serve as educational and community-building resources at Bryn Mawr. They help students explore issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in residence halls and on campus. Together with other members of the Dorm Leadership Team, affinity groups, the Impact Center, and community members, CDAs implement educational programming and help students explore diversity across a variety of areas, including race, socioeconomic class, gender identity, sexuality, abilities, and more. CDAs help facilitate conversation and build understanding around issues of equity and diversity, and they hold office hours to discuss questions raised by residents about these issues. The goal of the CDA program is to promote a community where difference is valued, through communication, mutual respect, and empathy towards one’s peers. CDAs are supervised by the Impact Center.

Customs People

Customs People (CPs) are students who have been selected to live on the halls with new students. They provide orientation during Customs Week as well as continued guidance throughout the year to assist first-year and transfer students with a successful transition to the College. CPs are part of the First-Year Experience.

Dorm Presidents

Dorm Presidents serve as elected representatives to Residence Council and as representatives to SGA. Residence Council is responsible for addressing residential and campus issues that involve dorm life, including but not limited to maintenance issues, student safety, energy conservation, and fire safety.

Residence Council also plans campus-wide dorm events such as the annual Halloween Dorm Trick or Treat and helps with the annual Room Draw process for room selection each spring semester.

Hall Advisers

Undergraduate Hall Advisers (HAs) work closely with members of their dorm leadership team, particularly Customs People, on behalf of their fellow residents. The HA has special responsibilities to the residents on the assigned hall where they live. HAs provide information about the College and its services and refer students to resource persons when appropriate.

As staff members of the Office of Residential Life and Student Engagement, HAs promote a community atmosphere conducive to learning and personal growth.

Peer Mentoring Services

Peer mentors are trained to help their fellow students identify and implement techniques for more effective learning. These techniques include developing strategic study routines, taking notes from lectures and readings, seeking help from the instructor, analyzing a course syllabus as well as texts, and working with a study group. Mentors also assist students with course selection and planning. Students can visit their peer mentor during workshops and drop-in hours, as well as in one-on-one sessions.