09/18/2025
Voting is open for the 2025 Residence Leadership Experience (RLE) and First Year Council (FYC) Elections! Check your email for the voting link. Good luck to all the candidates!
A leadership program for residential students at the University of Virginia.
Run collaboratively by Housing & Residence Life and the UVA Alumni Association, RLE allows students to develop a well-rounded set of practical leadership skills, interact with faculty and staff from across grounds, and work with motivated student leaders dedicated to serving the needs of their class by getting involved in two different leadership organizations: Association Councils and the First-Year Council!
09/18/2025
Voting is open for the 2025 Residence Leadership Experience (RLE) and First Year Council (FYC) Elections! Check your email for the voting link. Good luck to all the candidates!
08/27/2025
Join RLE, Student Council, and Class Council at one of the info sessions to learn more about each organization and how to run!
10/22/2024
Congratulations to our September AsCo Program of the Month winner, Lile-Maupin!
09/03/2024
07/18/2024
Meet Sammy Finnegan (she/her)!
Association: Echols-Humphreys
Position: ASCO Secretary
Term: 2020-2021
Sammy is currently one of the Co-Chairs for Housing and Residence Life, but her journey in student leadership started in RLE. Sammy joined AsCo because she wanted to create community and make sure that everyone felt like they had a place to call home in a time when students were so restricted in their social interactions. Because of her AsCo’s initiatives, residents in her building had the chance to socially engage and get to know one another, and we were able to make the best of a very lonely year.
Her advice to the class of 2028? Join RLE if you want to meet a lot of people and gain some great event-planning skills!
12/08/2022
One of the unique benefits of living on Grounds is the opportunity to participate in the Professors' Picks program! Participants select a book to read independently over Winter Break, and then discuss in late January/early February with the sponsoring faculty member. All books will be provided free of charge, as will food during the group discussion. The registration deadline is December 15, so go to housing.virginia.edu/professors-picks today to learn more and sign up!
09/19/2022
Shoutout to everyone in FYC and AsCo that came out today and made RLE Retreat amazing! So excited to see the fun things you plan for your dorms and for the first-year class this year 🫶🏽
09/19/2022
Shoutout to all the FYC and AsCo members that made this year’s RLE retreat a success! I’m excited to see what you all do as the year progresses 🫶🏽
08/26/2022
RLE Info Sessions are happening next week on September 1 and 2! See our Events tab for details including dates, times, and locations!