Residential Leadership Programs
RLP consists of three organizations: National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH), Residence Hall Association (RHA), and Community Council. Each organization has grown over the years and has improved the lives of students across campus. Check out NRHH’s and RHA’s origin stories below!
The National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) at CSU has been around since before 2013, when it became an official nationally recognized chapter as the Rams Chapter. The cabinet members over the years have worked relentlessly to make NRHH better, increasing membership, recognition efforts, and campus service participation and opportunities.
NRHH is an organization that has focused on recognizing and serving the communities around it, dating far back into the history of NACURH, Inc., or the National Association of College and University Residence Halls, Incorporated, a national organization dedicated to making NRHH and RHA chapters across North America help make their communities at their own institutions much better.
NACURH is split into many different regions across North America, including PACURH (Pacific Affiliation of…) , IACURH (Intermountain Affiliation of …), MACURH (Midwest), SWACURH (Southwest), GLACURH (Great Lakes), SAACURH (South Atlantic), CAACURH (Central Atlantic), NEACURH (North East).
Colorado State is within the IACURH Region, along with other schools in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
The Residence Hall Association (RHA) was founded at CSU in 1965, where members arranged programs for residents and to bring everyone on campus closer together. RHA followed that same method of programming for a while before they began to think about the impact that programs really could have on the residents on campus. So, RHA began to make programs that focused on advocating for the current issues around them.
It was a few years later that RHA decided to spread its knowledge and impact on the CSU community by making new organizations within each of the residence halls to have more student-led groups that help to spread positive messages to the rest of campus. Those organizations were known as Hall Councils, and they were all led by advisers and liaisons from either RHA or NRHH.
The first year that Hall Councils had liaisons from either RHA or NRHH was 2013. All new members began to think of ways that they could spread the word about the wonderful things at CSU and everything else wonderful happening around them, including RHA and NRHH.
Around 2021, the Councils were renamed to Community Councils, and each community was comprised of 3-4 nearby residence halls. Later, in 2024, these councils were again renamed to Regional Councils and a fifth Council as added, the Apartment Regional Council.
RHA’s cabinet has had a lot of changes over the years, but its main goal has had the same motive throughout its time: present the students living in the residence halls with a welcoming community full of diverse and accepting individuals that spread positive messages to all of campus.
