Creative and exciting bulletin boards are a passive and active way to build community on your floor.  Bulletin boards help residents feel welcome, educate them on various issues, and invite them to participate and get involved with their floor community.

 Why should I create a bulletin board?

            Because bulletin boards….

Brighten the floor community and make it more inviting

Teach residents about important issues passively

Creates an opportunity for students to get involved

 

Possible Bulletin Boards:

 1.      Start the year with a bang — firecracker or dynamite cut-outs

2.      Welcome Aboard — ship scene

3.      Instructions on how to do laundry

4.      100 Bottles of Beer — alcohol education

5.      Favorite quotes — ask each resident to submit one

6.      Name that baby — floor contest to identify floor member’s baby pictures

7.      Look before you buy — consumer information

8.      Study tips

9.      Time management skills

10.    Horoscope of the day

11.    Smile board

12.    Sign language

13.    Resident of the week

14.    Residence Hall History

15.    Nutrition chart

16.    Mystery of the week

17.    Trivia question of the day

18.    Roommate quiz

19.    Restaurant guide

20.    Movie reviews

21.    Graffiti Wall

22.    Knock-knock jokes

23.    Feature different cultures

24.    Comparative holidays and celebrations

25.    General safety tips

26.    Spring Break & safety

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Please try to stay away from bulletin boards designed to put down any member of your building or campus community.  (i.e. “Who’s Hot, Who’s Not?” bulletin boards aimed at professors)