A Neighborhood Assistant (NA) is another term for a Residential Assistant. The intention of Neighborhood Assistants are to bring a community together and to support people within a community. This title was changed at Oakes college, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), as Oakes' College's Neighborhood Assistants collectively decided that this would be a better term to suit their role in the community. Leonel, one of such Neighborhood Assistants, commented, "Oakes would not be the same if my title was Residential Assistant because people usually feel a 'police' figure from the word Residential and neighborhood sounds friendly."
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“We are now a nation of people in daily contact with strangers. Thanks to mass transportation, school administrators and teachers often live many miles from the neighborhood schoolhouse. They are no longer in daily informal contact with parents, ministers, and other institution leaders . . . [and are] no longer a natural extension of parental authority.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)