What is the Housing Leadership Institute (HLI)?
The Housing Leadership Institute is a national award-winning program hosted by the UCF Residence Hall Association here at UCF. This conference is a weekend-long immersive leadership experience geared towards incoming Freshman and First-Time-In-College (FTIC) students. HLI serves as a crash course on leadership and how to get involved on campus, with fun and educational programs, guest speakers, nightly entertainment, and free food for all participants.
Students are able to choose from a wide variety of entertainment, leadership, social justice, self-care, and college readiness programming sessions that will lasted throughout the day. While HLI events introduce students to the UCF campus, tell them different ways to get involved, and gives them access to exclusive leadership opportunities, more than anything else, it allows students a unique chance to connect with their fellow peers and begin building friendships.
Jack McNutt, a past attendee of HLI who became a Resident Assistant (RA) stated “HLI has been extremely beneficial to me. Coming to college I felt really lost. I got an e-mail about HLI out-of-the-blue and thought ‘what the heck, I might as well go.’ Little did I know that HLI would lead me into joining RHA, an organization that provided me with leadership skills, a group of great friends, and so much more. All of that was possible because I attended HLI. I loved my experience and valued the things it taught me so much that I want to come back in the future to become a team leader so that I can give others the same experience that I had coming in.”
What is the timeline for HLI 2025?
HLI will begin on Friday night, September 5th and will end on Sunday night, September 7th. All events take place on-campus.
The application is due on August 1st at 11:59pm. Priority applicants will be notified by August 4th and asked to confirm or decline their acceptance by August 6th. Anyone that does not respond will be taken as a decline. Any spots that open up will be offered to those on the waitlist.
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If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to rhaccc@ucf.edu! To keep up with RHA, follow them on Instagram.
To apply to be a Delegate (no leadership experience required!), click here.
To apply to be a Team Leader, click here.