The NCHO Student Leadership Drive-In aims to create an opportunity for student leaders who work directly with or alongside Residence Life and Housing programs to come together to make connections, share ideas, and learn from other student leaders from across the state. Student leaders include, but are not limited to, Resident Advisers/Resident Assistants, Desk Assistants, Village Mentors, Residence Hall Association (RHA) members, and National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) members.
2025 Student Leadership Drive-In
Registration Information
When you use the Student Leadership Drive-In registration form, you will be able to purchase multiple tickets at time and input the registration information for each member of your delegation.
Prior to completing this registration form, you should have the following information from your delegation members:
- First & Last Name, Preferred Pronouns (not required), Institution, Undergraduate Student or Advisor, Position title, Dietary needs, and Accommodation needs
Registration Dates and Prices
- Regular (Jan. 16, 2025 – Mar. 1, 2025)
- Cost: $65/person
- Late (Mar. 2, 2025 – Mar. 13, 2025)
- Cost: $75/person
Cancellation Policy
- Registration cancellations on or prior to Feb. 14, 2025 will receive a 100% refund.
- Registration cancellations between Feb. 15, 2025 and Feb. 28th, 2025 will receive a 50% refund.
- Refunds will not be given for any registration cancellations after Mar. 1st, 2025
- Cancellation requests must be received via email to business@ncho.org
Scholarship Opportunities
NCHO will be providing scholarship opportunities for institutions to attend the drive-in. The application should be completed by one advisor on behalf of their delegation. The scholarship may cover partial or full registration coverage of the delegation to attend. The deadline to be considered is January 31, 2025.
- The form asks for the advisor’s contact information, answers to 2 essay questions, and to indicate SHO approval for attending.
- The essay questions ask the following:
- Please describe the impact attending this type of opportunity will have on your delegation and how your delegation will apply what they learn in the future. (500 words or less)
- Please describe the make up of your undergraduate student delegation
- The essay questions ask the following:
Call for Program Proposals
We are looking for program proposal submissions from both undergraduate students and advisors (professional and graduate students). We welcome proposals by more than one presenter or even just a single presenter. Program sessions should aim to run between 30 to 45 minutes in length.
Program Proposals are due March 1 with program selection notifications to be sent by March 7.
Preparing your program proposal for an undergraduate audience resource.
Preparing your program proposal for an advisor audience resource.
Sample Drive-In Schedule
Please use this document if your institution requires a schedule to submitted to complete your expense reports.
The official drive-in schedule will be released after March 7, 2025 once the program sessions are confirmed.
Student Leadership Drive-In Awards
This year we will be further recognizing the great work of our student leaders with the debut of the Student Leadership Drive-In awards. During the closing ceremony, in addition to the “Best Program” and “Most Spirited” awards, we will be announcing the winners of the Student Leadership Drive-In awards.
We encourage institutions to submit at least one submission per award, but institutions may submit more than one for the same award. The deadline to submit is Friday, March 7, 2025.
To view the different award categories and to submit award nominations, please click this link.
*Award nominees are not required to attend the Student Leadership Drive-In, but we strongly encourage them to attend.
Student Leadership Drive-In Spirit
Come out to the drive-in decked out with spirit for your institution! One institution will be awarded “Most Spirited” and receive the spirit stick to hold onto until the next drive-in.
SWAG Swap: This is an opportunity for delegations to bring promotion items or “swag” from their institution that they can trade with other institutions. Pretty much anything branded to your institution can be traded. Examples include shirts, hats, pens, stress relief balls, lanyards, you name it! If it has your school’s name on it, please bring it to trade!
Clothes pins: Delegations are encouraged to decorate clothes pins with your institution’s colors to trade throughout the day. This is a great icebreaker as you meet new people during the drive-in. Delegations should plan to create about 10 clothes pins per delegate, but the more the better! Click here to get some ideas.
Banners: The Student Leadership Drive-In Banner Competition is an opportunity for delegations to create a creative digital banner that ties in their school spirit and the theme of the conference. The size of the image should be no larger than 1920px by 1080px which is the average size of a presentation slide. These will be due Friday, March 21, 2025. Click here for the submission form.
Cheers and Chants: Each institution will be given up to 30 seconds during the Opening Ceremonies to show off their cheer or chant. These can be ones your institution already does or a unique one created just for the Student Leadership Drive-In.
Conference Chair Contact Information
Christine Garst at studentleaderdrivein@ncho.org