Community Programming Assistant
(Redirected from CPA)
This position was replaced with the Community Advisor, or CA position, which has been replaced with a Senior RA position as of Fall 2015.
A Community Programming Assistant or CPA was a student hired by the Office of Residential Programs who was charged with supervising area-wide programming for a residence hall. Like RAs, CPAs received free housing and a $600 stipend.
CPA duties included:
- Feeding the residents of the CPA's assigned area
- Feeding the residents of other areas that show up anyway
- Busting parties
- Fighting the noble war on drugs, tobacco, and in first year dorms, alcohol (or looking the other way and generally not caring much about it at all)
- Spamming the building