Residential Life and Housing
Residential Life and Housing staff assists students in learning how to live in community on a residential campus. The friendships and life experiences developed by living on campus provide students with many unexpected benefits that positively impact the academic, occupational, recreational, spiritual, mental and emotional maturity of students. Students learn by daily practice how to develop healthy eating, sleeping, study and social habits. For these reasons, students are required to live in college housing for three years (six semesters)* and are encouraged to live all four years in college housing.
To promote a positive living and learning environment, Residential Life and Housing is responsible for educational programming, group activity advising, leadership development, student conduct, peer counseling, housing administration and resource referral. A Resident Assistant (RA), a student paraprofessional trained to address the needs of students, lives on each residence hall floor. In each area, one RA also serves as a Senior Resident Assistant (SRA). The Senior Resident Assistant serves alongside the professional staff in the Senior Staff On Call rotation and provides additional administrative support for the area. An Area Coordinator is a professional staff member, trained in hall administration, community development and staff supervision. The Area Coordinators oversee and support the residence halls and the campus apartments. Area Coordinators are supervised by the the Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residential Life and Housing.
* Please Note: When the 2023-2024 Handbook was published in Fall 2023 this section referred to the former two-year live on requirement. We apologize for the confusion, but the 3-year live on requirement for housing is noted accurately in the Room and Board Requirements and Rates of the Catalog, the Housing Policies and Housing and Meals sections of the Student Handbook, on the Student Life/Housing and Dining webpage and in the Housing and Meal Plan Exception Form.