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Brenda Moeder has worked in housing since her undergrad. Brenda attended

Kansas State

University for

her

undergraduate

degree where she

worked has a

food service

person (otherwise

known as K-State

Freshies). After

that job, Brenda

served as a front

desk worker. Her

last three years

she served as a

Resident

Assistant.

Brenda loved her

Resident

Assistant

position and

found that that

role gave her

purpose. That

Resident

Assistant

position was her

start into

Student Affairs.

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Following Brenda’s undergraduate degree, she also attended Kansas State

University to receive her Masters in Higher Education and College Student

Development. She became the Assistant Complex Director. She ran two front desks

and also advised two hall councils while in that role.

(The picture to the right is of Brenda Moeder and one of her mentees who she has

had an amazing impact on). Brenda also had an internship the summer in between

her graduate studies. That internship was located at the University of Tennessee. In her free time with this positon, she got to explore around and learn more about

herself prior to receiving a full-time position.

After earning her

Masters, Brenda

then took a job at

University of

Wisconsin-Stout.

She worked as a

Hall Director

there for a couple

of years.

(The picture to

the left is of

Brenda Moeder

and one of the

University of

Central

Missouri’s

Residence Hall

Directors at the

Fall Leadership

Retreat in 2016). After her time

was done as a

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Hall Director, she started working at the University of Central Missouri, which is

where Brenda has been for over 20 years now. Her first role was as a live-in Area

Coordinator. She was in charge of the following residence halls: Houts-Hosey,

Nickerson, and Nattinger-Bradshaw. She stayed in Nattinger-Bradshaw, but her

office was at Houts-Hosey during this time. During this role she became the advisor

for the National Residence Hall Honorary and the United Student Housing

Association. Following that position, she became the Assistant Director of Housing. Within that role, she was in charge of all operations, contracts, and room

assignments. She still advised the National Residence Hall Honorary and the

United Student Housing Association. Her next role was Associate Director of

Housing. She then not only advised, but also gained the responsibility to supervise

all of the apartments. She also started picking up facilities projects. Also, while she

was in this position, there was a point where the University of Central Missouri

needed a Director of Career Services. The President of the university approached

Brenda about taking

over this position.

Brenda decided to

take over this

position while still

handling all the

responsibilities as

Associate Director of

Housing until the

position could be

filled by another

person. After the

position of Director

of Career Services

was filled, she then

oversaw that

position as well. During that time,

she was considered

as a Special

Assistant to the Vice

President of Student

Affairs.

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(The picture to the right is of Brenda Moeder helping out at the Fall Leadership

Retreat). Her last and most current position is as Director of Housing, Facilities,

and Operations. With that she does everything from operations to housing contracts

to room assignments to supervising the apartments. Basically, in this role, she does

all the behind-the-scenes work to make sure housing is running smoothly. With

this, she is actively involved in all of the furnishings of all University Housing,

specifically in regards to the newest building, the Crossing. She also serves as the

liaison for Facilities, Planning, and Operations management staff regarding any

maintenance and custodial

concerns. She also is in

charge of University

Housing’s departmental

website. She even is the

person who handles medical

appeals for housing, which

most definitely is a hard and

tasking subject to deal with.

(This picture below is of

Brenda and one of her

supervisees).

Brenda advised the National

Residence Hall Honorary and

the United Student Housing

Association for 15 years. This

advisory was then taken

away from her responsibility,

but she oversees the advisor

to ensure that they are doing

a good job. This is especially

the case because she has been

in that role for so long. Brenda also is a big supporter

of both groups. She attends as

many general body meetings

for the United Student

Housing Association as she

can. She also always attends

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the Stars Reception which is put on by both organizations as an award banquet for

the outstanding work the hall councils do. She even ensures to bring smiles to

resident’s faces while sitting with them during the event.

Brenda earned her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership through the

University of Missouri-Columbia. Because Brenda has this degree, she also serves

as an adjunct professor. She teaches classes when it is needed. The classes she has

taught is Student Development Theory II, Governance and Finance in Higher

Education, Organizational Leadership, Teams and Group Dynamics, Summer

Internship in Student Affairs, Independent Studies on Leadership and Student

Development Theory, University 1000, and Valuing Differences. Brenda also has

been a research mentor for the Impact of Involvement in Greek Organizations

course. Brenda is currently teaching Student Development Theory I.

(This picture to the left

is of Brenda and her

niece. Even though she

works hard for the

university, she ensures

to take care of her little

niece when needed). Brenda also has

served and is still

serving on various

University Housing

projects and

committees. With

that, she has been the

Search Committee

Chair for an Area

Coordinator. She also

helps out with

Residence Hall

Director Training,

Community Advisor

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Selection and Training, and Office Assistant Recruitment. Even though Brenda

loves housing, she has also been a part of committees and projects that better the

University of Central Missouri’s community as a whole. She has served as the

chairperson for Family Weekend, Beyond Words Oppression Experience, and

Interim Campus Activities Director Search Committee Chairperson. She also is a

part of the College Student Personnel Program Coordinator Search Committee,

Director of Institution Effectiveness Search Committee, Human Resources Director

Search Committee, and Director of Campus Activities Search Committee. She also

has helped coordinate the first annual university-wide student job fair.

Brenda has three major on-campus level goals. Her first goal is not make people

made. While this is a great goal to have, it is a hard one to achieve because it is not

realistic. There is always someone who will be made about something that one does

because her role is to enforce University Housing policies. Her second goal is to set

up processes behind the scenes that help the resident. Interestingly enough, she

believes this is best done when people do not know or realize what she is doing. Her

final goal is to continue to oversee on the facilities side. She wants to insure that

money is always invested into bettering the facilities for residents to stay in.

(The picture to the left is of Brenda serving cookies at one of the United Student

Housing Association’s general body meetings). Brenda views her campus

achievements as her long term impacts in student affairs. At the Upper Midwest

Region-Association of College and University Housing Officials conference in 2007,

she won the Robert E. Mosier Professional Enrichment Award. In 2010, Brenda

Moeder won the John Paul Mees Award for Outstanding Professional Staff through

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the University of Central Missouri because

of all her hard work. She also won a bid and

then built from scratch a program to build

processes on her computer. She got

playground equipment at Central Village,

which is where families can stay at if one is

a student attending the University of

Central Missouri. Brenda also is proud of

the fact that University Housing was able to

provide new furniture. All the old furniture

was then donated to places of high needs. That totally over 1 million pounds of

furniture. Lastly, Brenda values her

relationships. She loves stay in contact with

the people that she has made friends with

over the years. Brenda also has been award

2-3 bronze pins from various presidents she

has advised over the years.

(This picture to the left is of Brenda

holding a cow in front of her face. At this

time, this was all the University of Central

Missouri had for their traveling Molly). Brenda has not only held up her

responsibilities for MACURH and

NACURH while serving as the United

Student Housing Association and the

National Residence Hall Honorary, but

she attended numerous conferences. Whenever No Frills-no known as the

Regional Business Conference-was hosted

at the University of Central Missouri,

Brenda was the advisor for the team that

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put on the conference. Brenda also traveled to NACURH while she was employed at

the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She also has served as the conference advisor to

several delegations for various MACURH-related conferences over the years.

Brenda also has served heavily on the Upper Midwest Region-Association of College

and University Housing Officers (UMR-ACUHO). Between 1997 and 1999, she

started out on the Program Committee. Following this, Brenda was the Executive

Committee Secretary between 1999 and 2001. She eventually became a conference

host co-chair for the 2003 conference. This then led to Brenda serving as the Vice

President/President Elect of UMR-ACUHO in 2004. She stopped serving on the

executive board after she had her Presidency in 2005.

Listed below is Brenda’s extensive list of her

conference experience.

17 years of attending MACURH Regional Leadership Conferences.

o This was consecutive attendance.

17 years of attending MACURH No Frills Conferences (These are

now known as Regional Business Conferences).

o This was consecutive attendance.

8 years of NACURH Conferences.

o This was random times of attendance when funding was

available and residents wished to attend.

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23 years of UMR-ACUHO Conferences.

o This is consecutive attendance.

2 years of ACUHO-I Conference attendance.

o One of these years she worked as a volunteer.

8 years of attending summer and winter business meetings.

(The picture to the left is of Brenda and

one her colleagues). Brenda has also

presented so many programs at

conferences that she cannot remember

all the names of them. Brenda

presented approximately 15 programs

at UMR-ACUHO Conferences. She

also has presented 5 programs to

advisors at MACURH-related

conferences. Every fall and spring,

there are Housing Leadership Retreats

put on for the hall councils. She does

not always present here, but does so

frequently. She also has presented

several programs at the Kansas

Resident Assistant conferences. She

even was the keynote speaker there

one year.

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Brenda has chosen to be involved in housing for so long for four major reasons.

Brenda loves housing. She also loves the opportunity to wear multiple hats. Specifically, she does not like doing the same thing every day and her role allows

her to change it up. Her role fits her type A processor. Lastly, Brenda loves the

ability to interact with other people. There is most definitely no better positon for

Brenda to work in other than the one she has currently.

(The picture to the left is of

Brenda. This picture definitely

embodies her fun-loving

personality). Due to her non-

glamorous role involving

furniture, meal plans, and

contracts, her motivation

stems from intrinsic values. She loves making a

difference. In fact, Brenda

believes the biggest difference

she can make is when

residents do not know that

she has made the difference

but it has helped their lives

on campus a lot. Brenda also

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has a nice sense of humor, which shows through and helps motivate the people she

works with as well. (This picture displayed below is of Brenda and one of her

colleagues).

Brenda Moeder is also extremely passionate about community service. She

participates in ongoing fundraisers to support international adoption through the

America World Adoption Agency. She also does fundraising for the American

Cancer Society. Every year, she participates in Operation Christmas Child, which is

an organization that sends boxes of gifts to people who do not get to celebrate the

holidays with presents because they cannot afford to do so. Lastly, she helps out

with both the World Vision Child Sponsorship and the Compassion International

Child Sponsorship.

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Brenda is most proud

of her students. Specifically, Brenda

loves when it comes to

graduation time. She

likes to see everyone

in the crowd and

realize that although

she might not have

ever physically met

any of them, she

maybe played a part

in their success. She

likes that they are

moving on with their

life and starting fresh,

which all could have

been due to her hard

work in the residence

halls. With someone who takes such pride in her work and the people around her,

there is no one better to win the Hallenback Service Award. (This picture on the

page above is of Brenda Moeder, one of her coworkers, and also one of her graduate

students).

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