National Residence Hall Honorary

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In the United States, the National Residence Hall Honorary, or NRHH, is the recognition branch of NACURH.[1] NACURH, as an organization, believes that recognition is necessary in a strong Residence Hall community. The National Residence Hall Honorary was founded in 1964 to recognize student leaders at universities.[2]

NRHH, although a national organization, is established on university campuses through the creation of chapters. NRHH chapters recognize top leaders that reside on campus through membership.[3] The NRHH chapter membership (per school) is restricted to 1% of students living in the residence halls. Members are often considered, once inducted, to be the Top 1% of residence hall leaders.[4]

Beginning after the NACURH 2008 conference, NRHH at the national level will be supervised by the National Associate for NRHH who will reside as a member of the NACURH Executive Board. They will oversee all the Regional Associate Directors for NRHH, known as RADs, as well as any national level NRHH business, such as the national OTM selection committee.

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In 1964, the National Association of College and University Residence Halls became financially unstable. The NACURH Chair at the time found for additional streams of revenue through grants. In order to obtain these grants, NACURH needed to create a central office, and more services needed to be provided to member schools. Because of this, the National Residence Hall Honorary was created.[4]

In the 1980s NRHH expanded by beginning to provide pins and certificates. Additionally a formal set of recruitment and affiliation packets were created. The Of The Month (OTM) award was established around the same time. In the early 2000s, the NRHH National Office designed a catalog of merchandise, such as clothing apparel, other pins, window clings, and graduation honor cords just to name a few, to offer to the chapters to purchase.

NRHH was supervised at the national level by the NRHH National Office until it was replaced by the NACURH Services and Recognition Office (NSRO) in 2006. While the office moves every 3 years, it currently resides at the University of Washington. Most of the NSRO functions are the same as the former office, except that NRHH chapters now affiliate with the NACURH Information Center (NIC) along with their respective school's residence hall association (RHA).

Over 170 chapters are currently affiliated with the organization.[4]

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  1. ^ Dunkel, Norbert W. & Schuh, John H. (1997), Advising Student Groups and Organizations (1st ed.), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, ISBN 978-0787910334 
  2. ^ Shepherd, Leslie (May 13, 2004), “Names in the News”, The Washington Post 
  3. ^ Residence hall honor society recognizes leadership. The Daily Collegian (September 25, 1991). Retrieved on 2008-02-15.
  4. ^ a b c About NRHH. National Services and Recognition Office. Retrieved on 2008-02-15.