RLHS  Defining Principles and Values

As colleagues engaged in providing an exceptional residential experience for Duke students, we

•    Appreciate the significant abilities and opportunities we have to impact the Duke undergraduate experience and help shape the individuals our students will become.

•    Think critically about what we do, and have the courage to change.

•    Lead by example and demonstrate by word and deed our steadfast commitment to integrity, ethical behavior, respect, and celebration of diversity in its broadest sense.

•    Invest in the development of our staff and other colleagues in ways that help them make a difference that matters.

•    Understand and exercise our fiduciary and advocacy responsibilities.

How we manifest these principles defines us and guides how we respond to the values that frame the residential experience:

•    Supportive relationships founded on individual connections.

•    Experiences that seamlessly join the curricular and the co-curricular.

•    Actions based on mutual respect, responsibility, and integrity.

•    Deeper understandings of individual difference through open, honest and respectful discourse.

•    Comfortable, clean, and secure environments for living and learning.