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The operating structure of NACURH is comprised of eight regional affiliates and two national offices. Each region is responsible for all schools in its geographic area. The NACURH Information Center (NIC) handles association-wide responsibilities and the NACURH Services and Recognition Office (NSRO) handles all NACURH merchandise.

On the regional level, each region is led by a Regional Board of Directors (RBD) elected by the school representatives from that region. Each Regional Director and their Associate Director of Finance also sit on the National Board of Directors (NBD). The NBD is comprised of the RD and ADF from each region, the Director and ADF of each of the national offices, as well as four national executives elected by the NBD from their own ranks. These executives are the National Chair, National Associate for Finance, National Associate for Administration, and National Associate for NRHH. In addition, the NBD Liaison from the national conference staff, the Conference Resource Consultant, and the National Advisor also sit on the board.

In most circumstances, each of the eight regions receives one vote, with the offices and national executives participating in debate only. For more details, please refer to the NACURH Bylaws and Policy Book

AAFN - Association of Alumni and Friends of NACURH
ACUHO-I - Association of College and University Housing Officers - International
CTD - Commitment To Diversity Award
CRC - Conference Resource Consultant
DSA - Distinquished Service Award
FYE - First Year Experience Award
NAA - National Associate for Administration
NAF - National Associate for Finance
NACURH - National Association of College and University Residence Halls, Inc.
NBD - National Board of Directors
NCC - National Communications Coordinator
NCCit - National Communications Coordinator in Training
NIC - Nacurh Information Center
NRHH - National Residence Hall Honorary
NSRO - NACURH Services and Recognition Office
OCM - On Campus Marketing
OTM - "Of The Month" Award
POY - Program of the Year Award
RAD - Regional Associate Director (AD-NRHH)
RBD - Regional Board of Directors
RCC - Regional Communications Coodinator
RFI - Resource File Index
SALT - Student Award for Leadership Training
SAAS - SAACURH Alumni and Affiliates Society
SBD - State Board of Directors
SEAHO - Southeastern Association of Housing Officers
SEC - SAACURH Executive Commitee
SOY - School of the Year
STOY - Student of the Year

The NACURH Information Center serves as the headquarters office of the organization. The NIC, like the rest of NACURH, is entirely student-run by staff from the host institution. Responsibilities of the office include this website, handling all affiliation and dues issues, publishing the NACURH Network at least five times a year, granting voting rights at conferences, promoting the organization to prospective members, and making all reports and bids in the Resource File Index available to member schools.

The NIC staff is here to help you! For more information regarding who to contact for your specific needs, please refer to the NIC Staff page for the most up to date contact information. We recommend e-mail communication since each staff member can serve only limited office hours each week.

The NIC is currently in transition to New York University. We are constantly updating our affiliation records, adding new files to the RFI, filling your file orders, and developing new systems to better serve you. Additionally, we are hard at work preparing to transition the office to the next deserving host institution. If your school is interested in bidding for the office, we encourage you to talk to our AD of Transition, at transition@nic.nacurh.org. For the most up to date information regarding current projects and their status at the office, please visit our projects page!

To be considered fully affiliated, a school must submit to the NIC office (or representative at a conference) the annual dues payment, a submission for inclusion into the Resource File Index (see more about NIC Reports below), and have filled out the affiliation form online. Schools affiliating for the first time or under the one-time trial membership may have the NIC report requirement waived. See the NIC section below for more information regarding the office.

Dues are currently $110 per year. Schools with under 1,000 students living in university (on-campus) housing pay a reduced rate of $85 per year. A school may also choose a one time only Associate membership, which provides all benefits of affiliation except voting rights at conferences. Dues for the Associate membership are only $35. These fees are for both RHA and NRHH affiliation as passed at NACURH 2007.The affiliation year lasts from the end of one National Conference to the end of the next. For example, the current affiliation year ends at the close of business of the NACURH national conference.

A school is granted voting rights at conferences if they are a fully affiliated school in good standing with NACURH. To be in good standing, a school must have paid their dues, submitted an approved NIC report, and have a NACURH debt of less than $10. The NIC representative at a conference must certify a school's good standing by the start of business for a school to have voting rights at that conference. For this reason, we HIGHLY recommend schools send their dues payment and NIC report to the NIC at least two weeks prior to a conference to allow adequate mailing and processing time. Otherwise, please bring these materials directly to the conference, where an NIC representative will be happy to assist you. The NIC representative has the final say in voting rights and affiliation matters and is unable to make exceptions to these guidelines.

NIC reports are documents written by member schools each year to share something noteworthy from the past year with the rest of the organization. This can be a how-to guide for putting on an exceptionally good program, a description of how the RHA helped plan a new residence hall, or an explanation of evolving campus technology policy. We have 45 categories to choose from! NIC reports need to be a minimum of 5 pages long (they can be double spaced), including a cover page. The cover page needs the following information: school name, title of the report, number of pages (including the cover), and a brief abstract describing the report. This abstract is what members see when browsing the Resource File Index (RFI) and helps them decide if the file is worth ordering. Reports should be submitted to the NIC on unbound white paper (binding or stapling makes it hard to make copies - paperclips work great!). The mailing address for the NIC is listed in the NIC section below. For questions regarding NIC reports, please contact the Associate Director of Records at records@nic.nacurh.org

Of course! The NIC has an Associate Director of Affiliations who can help you with all of your affiliation needs. This person can be contacted at nic.affiliations@nacurh.org and will be glad to help you out. The NIC AD of Affiliations is also the one to talk to if you have any problems with your affiliation information on the website.

The Resource File Index is a massive collection of several thousand documents written by students from member schools over the fifty-year history of NACURH. For convenience, the RFI is divided into several categories. The first set contains all of the reports submitted by member schools each year, broken down by topic area. The second set indexes all of the award bids and other documents that the NIC receives. Both types of documents are available for ordering by registered schools.

The NACURH.org website contains an electronic version of the file index. To order files, you need to have a NACURH.org username and password. Your username is the email address provided to us when your school filled out the online affiliation form. Every NCC, advisor, RHA President, and NRHH President with an email address in our system has their own account. If you want to check what email addresses we have, check your school's information on the affiliation/directory page and click your school name. To have your password sent to you, just enter this email on the 'forgot my password' page, and it will be emailed to that address. Once you log in to the site, the file index will include "add to order" links next to every file. Simply click the files you wish to add to your order. To see your current order, remove files, or complete your order, just click the 'edit order/checkout' link on the right and follow the instructions on the screen.

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Files are delivered via both US Mail in printed format, and via email in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. We are in the process of converting the nearly 100,000 pages of resource files into electronic format. Those files that have been scanned are marked as "Available Online" in the file index. Files that have been scanned are delivered via email, those not yet scanned are delivered via US Mail. Email delivery takes about half a second with all electronic files attached, for paper delivery we usually have a one-week turnaround before files are mailed. We currently do not offer a choice between delivery formats, but if you have an interest in such an option, please email our Associate Director of Techology at nic.tech@nacurh.org.

For problems with file orders, your best bet is to contact our Associate Director of Administration at nic.admin@nacurh.org. They are the one to talk to if your files haven't arrived, if a file that was supposed to be sent electronically never got attached, a file sent is not the one you ordered, etc. For technical issues regarding the ordering system itself, contact our Associate Director of Techology at nic.tech@nacurh.org.

An Intent to Bid is a letter or e-mail stating a school's or individual's intent to bid for a particular award, position, or conference. Intents to Bid are used by the Regional Director to help schedule time for bid presentations and discussion during SAACURH business meetings. An Intent to Bid is not required for most awards and positions and will be required at the Director's discretion.