Residence Life

Special Interest Housing

First Year Experience (FYE) Program
Sophomore Year Experience Floor
Service Yields Success
Cultural Immersion
Sophomore Apartments
PREP Housing (Purchase Residence Extension Program)
Graduate/Non-traditional student housing
Non-Smoking Apartments
Wellness Housing
Single Rooms

The Office of Residence Life offers a variety of special interest programs to meet the needs of our diverse community. Students can elect to become residents in one of our Speicial Interest Areas. These small scale communities organized around themes and interests occupy specially designed residence halls or sections of residence halls. The result is an increased opportunity for individuals with similar interest to live and learn together. For more information on any of these special interest programs, contact the Office of Residence Life.

First Year Experience (FYE) Program - This program is designed specifically to ease the transition from high school to college. These residence halls provide a special setting for all first-year students. This area focuses additional attention on the unique transitional needs of first year students. Special staff has been trained and assigned to work with our first year students. The FYE program is currently housed in Farside, Crossroads, and 6 floors of Big Haus.

Sophomore Year Experience Floor is for students choosing to live with other sophomores and focus on issues during one’s second year at college. This program is located in Fort Awesome.

Service Yields Success students choosing to focus on Community Service and Leadership. This Program will be located in Fort Awesome.

Cultural Immersion housing is for international and domestic students who want to live together and focus on a cultural exchange and programming around the same theme. This will be located on J-street in the Olde apartments.

Sophomore Apartments are a few apartments available for students sophomores who would like the apartment experience. These apartments are located in the Commons. One must have lived in FYE housing during the 2005-06 year to qualify.

PREP Housing (Purchase Residence Extension Program) is a housing option that provided housing over breaks when the college residential facilities are closed. You do not need to fill a group roster, you may sign up by space. All spaces are apartment singles in Alumni Village. You either sign up for full year (May-May) or academic year (Aug– May). You will be assigned an apartment, matching academic year together and full year together. We can not guarantee apartment mate preferences.

Graduate/Non-traditional student housing will be available in the apartments. If a student is at least 24 years of age, or a graduate student they may choose to reside in this option. apartments are available in all three apartment complexes. You do not need to fill a group roster, you may sign up by space.

Non-Smoking Apartments will be available in each complex. They will be located in

The Olde: H2,H4, H6, J2,J4, J6, J8
Commons (NEW): K Street, M Street
Alumni Village: buildings 1,8, & 10

Wellness Housing - The residential Wellness program houses students committed to holistic health and wellness. Staff and residents develop programs that focus specifically on areas of Wellness including Physical, Intellectual, Vocational/Occupational, Financial, Emotional, Social (relating to Culture, Society, Family, and Community), Environmental and Spiritual. Each semester faculty, staff and off-campus guests come into the Wellness housing area to lead discussions on holistic health. Some of the discussion topics for the Holistic Health Series include The Health Benefits of Being in Nature, The Effects of College on Social Interactions- cliques and fitting in, Gender Roles in Inter-racial Families, What is Family?, Spiritual Wellness, Wellness housing is smoke and alcohol free, and located in Outback. More information about WELLNESS@PURCHASE. OR contact Julie Griek at extension 7049 or Koreen Kerfoot at extension 6329.

Single Rooms - The Office of Residence Life offers a limited number of singles for returning students in the residence halls, as well as in the Olde apartments and Alumni Village apartments. To be eligible for a residence hall single, a student must have a grade point average of 3.00 or better. Students interested in an apartment single may sign up on the wait list the third week of the semester. The wait list is first come first serve. Singles are generally not available for freshmen students.

Page last updated 7/13/06