This list of Northwestern University residences catalogues the on-campus housing options for the university's approximately 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students on the Evanston, Illinois campus.
The Thomas G. Ayers College of Commerce and Industry (CCI) is located next to the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Aquatic Center (SPAC) and just off of Lake Michigan. Built in 1991, it is divided into four floors, three of which are co-ed. CCI holds an annual Business Symposium, students to discuss business-related issues with leaders in the field.
The current president is Preena Shroff. The vice president is Shreya Mahesh. The treasurer is Julia Xu. The academic affairs chair is Anurag Chapagain. [1][2]
Chapin Hall (Humanities Residential College)
Humanities Residential College (Chapin)
Type
Residential college
Established
1901
Faculty Chair
Tom Burke
Associate Chair
Jason K. Roberts
Assistant Chair
Courtney Rabada
President
Kendall Clark
Enrollment
72
Location
726 University Pl. Evanston IL 60201
Originally built in 1901, Julia A. Chapin Hall became a women's dorm for Northwestern University in 1967. However, in the fall of 1979, Northwestern gave the dorm to the Humanities College, thus establishing the Humanities Residential College at Chapin Hall.[3] One of the smaller dorms, Chapin Hall houses 72 students in the biggest doubles on campus.[4]
Chapin Hall has been renovated but maintained its patterned ceilings, wooden floors, and large stairways. The hall also includes a small library, three kitchenettes, a media lounge, and War Room containing an assortment of board games, a piano, and computers.[4]
Chapin Hall is also known for partnering with Helicon, a literary and arts magazine founded by Chapin alumnae.[5]
East Fairchild (Communications Residential College, CRC)
Communications Residential College (CRC)
Type
Residential college
Established
1981
Chair
Roger Boye
Assistant Chair
Hannah Feiner
President
Jessica Dean
Vice President
Lillian Ali
Tech Chair
James Lee
Academic Chair
Natalie Wells
Social Chair(s)
Jillian Olson and Amelie Nguyen
Treasurer
Emma Manley
Secretary
Lizzie Ferrazza
Philanthropy Chair
Lindsey Nickel
Special Events Chair
Adrienne Scheide
IM Sports Chair
Mahalia Foster
Enrollment
104
Location
1855 Sheridan Rd. Evanston IL 60201
East Fairchild's focus is mass media, attracting students interested in film, television, radio and journalism. Informal lectures, known as firesides, often feature journalists and filmmakers.[6]
CRC was built in 1981 as part of a $23million South Campus project, which included the construction of 1861 Sheridan, 1835 Hinman and other residence halls. A $2million gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation helped provide equipment and finance other expenses for the residential college. CRC's equipment includes a radio station, WXRU 640 AM, as well as two movie-screening rooms.
In 1987, a beloved and talented CRC resident, named Will Arnold, died in his sleep due to an arrhythmia.[7] Will had been the college's equipment chair, and a fundraiser was inaugurated in his honor with half the proceeds going to the American Heart Association and half for CRC equipment and events. The fundraiser is called Radiothon, and it spans 50 hours of student-run radio shows. Events include a date auction, drag show, and a goods auction, with items and gift certificates donated by area merchants.
Hobart House opened as an all-women's residence hall within the East Sorority Quad in fall 1928. In 1981, the all-women's Allison Residential College, which had been founded five years earlier, moved to Hobart House and changed its name to the Women's Studies Residential College (WSRC). In 1988, the name was changed to the Women's Residential College (WRC) to encourage even broader participation by women.[8]
Jones Fine and Performing Arts Residential College
Jones Fine and Performing Arts Residential College
Type
Residential college
Established
1982
President
Russell Pinzino
Enrollment
approx. 120
Location
1820 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60201
Jones Residential College[9] is the fine and performing arts residential college, located on the southern edge of campus, directly across the street from Lake Michigan.
Jones was opened in the fall of 1982 as part of the residential college system. The building cost almost $2.5 million to develop, most of the funds coming from Wayne V. and Elizabeth R. Jones, to whom the building was dedicated. The Joneses were alumni of Northwestern from the graduating class of 1923. The facilities of Jones include spaces for photo editing, music recording, sound editing, ceramics studio, art studio, music and theatrical rehearsal rooms, a dance studio, and a performance space.[10]
Public Affairs Residential College (PARC)
Public Affairs Residential College (PARC)
Type
Residential college
Established
1992
Chair
Keith Woodhouse
President
Dylan Jost
Vice President
John McDermott
Treasurer
Hayden Harb
Academic Chair
Genni Bogdanowicz
Social Chair(s)
Hannah Feuer and Nathaniel Unger
Communication Chair
Reagan Dennison
Enrollment
72
Location
650 Emerson Ave. Evanston IL 60201
The Public Affairs Residential College is a politics and social policy-themed residential college at Northwestern University. It is located in the North Mid-Quads (NMQ) building at 650 Emerson Street in the southern half of campus. PARC has one of the best locations on campus, conveniently located in between main campus and downtown Evanston.[11]
In Fall 2015, PARC relocated from 1838 Chicago Avenue as part of the university's Housing Master Plan. PARC's executive board voted later that year to permanently remain in the recently renovated facility.[12] Before that, North Mid-Quads was notably the freshman year dorm of Duchess of Sussex and School of Communications graduate Meghan Markle.[13]
Residential College of Cultural and Community Studies (CCS)
Residential College of Cultural and Community Studies
Type
Residential college
Established
1972
Faculty Chair
Myrna García
Hall President
Regan Andringa-Seed
Enrollment
43
Location
2303 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60201
The College of Cultural and Community Studies is one of the first residential colleges at Northwestern University and also the smallest.[14] Founded in the fall of 1972, CCS was originally called the Urban Studies College. The college's main purpose was to provide a home to students interested in the interaction of diverse cultures and urban communities in the U.S. and abroad. Residents have majors in many different areas but share an interest in cultures and concern for local and global communities. In 2007, CCS won the Northwestern Green Cup, an annual competition among Northwestern undergraduate residences to conserve the most energy. In 2008, 2009 and 2010, CCS was the overall winner of Northwestern's RCB Field Day, an annual competition amongst Northwestern's 11 residential colleges.
Shepard Residential College
Shepard Residential College
Type
Residential college
Established
1972
Faculty Chair
Mark Witte
Associate Chair
Beth Pardoe
Assistant Chair
Jakob Reinke
President
Molly Stockmeyer
Vice President
Max Levine
Treasurer
Shanti Gallivan
Academic Co-Chair
Jane Mavis
Academic Co-Chair
Skye Swann
Social Co-Chair
Julianna Feit
Social Co-Chair
Ethan Weihl
Outreach Co-Chair
Mary “Myk” Kezdy
Outreach Co-Chair
Jackson Weber
Tech Chair
Jack Burkhardt
Enrollment
72
Fellows
27
Location
655 University Pl Evanston, IL 60201
Shepard Residential College is one of the two multi-thematic residential colleges at Northwestern University.[15] It is home to 72 students, making it a mid-sized residential college. Located at 655 University Place in a building known as South Mid Quads, Shepard is near downtown Evanston, as well as the southern half of campus.[16]
Shepard Hall was constructed as part of Northwestern's Centennial celebration and was dedicated in November 1952 as an addition to the women's quadrangles. The original building was made possible by a donation from Mrs. Margaret Bowen Shepard to honor her husband and sister (who was the dean of women at Northwestern). Shepard began as a women's residence hall, but became a multi-thematic, coeducational residential college in 1972. In 2015, the Residential College permanently moved from its old home at 626 University Place to its new one in what used to be the South Mid-Quads building at 655 University Place.[17]
Shepard Residential College offers a classroom, TV lounge, study lounge, and a meeting room. The TV Lounge is equipped with a big-screen television, gaming consoles, a ping-pong table. Additionally, Shepard has a full kitchen and laundry room for students to utilize.[18]
The Residential College holds a number of events for its residents. These include fireside chats, where faculty and students give presentations about topics that they're passionate about. Shepard also hosts frequent game nights, movie nights, and culinary events.[19]
Slivka Residential College for Science and Engineering
Slivka Hall was built in 2002 as Northwestern's residential college devoted to science and engineering.[20] It was named after Ben Slivka, a Northwestern graduate of 1982 who headed Microsoft'sInternet Explorer team up to version 3.0. Slivka is located on the northern part of campus. It lies between CCI and the fraternities. The nearest dining hall is Elder Hall.
While predominantly made up of engineers and scientists, the Slivka community includes students from all six the Northwestern University schools. It is organized into suites by gender and has an unusually high retention rate of upperclassmen in comparison to its sister residential colleges.[citation needed] Slivka frequently invites professors and other Northwestern faculty, such as James Fraser Stoddart, to speak on subjects ranging from nanotechnology to the economics of the internet to social scandals in Elizabethan England. Interestingly, it is also the residential college with the largest Brazilian community.[citation needed] Slivka also hosts semiweekly professor-to-peer (P2P) lunches, where Slivka fellows are invited to join the residents for lunch at Sargent Hall, and quarterly student-fellow receptions in which the fellows join the residents for a catered meal.
Slivka has four floors and a basement. The basement houses the Discovery Room (a room containing computers, printers, and other assorted technology), and a bike room, music room, and laundry room. The first floor connects to a store called Lisa's Cafe, and the second floor has a recreation lounge, which contains a foosball table, along with a pool table, a table tennis table, and two televisions and other furniture. All of the floors contain suites and fully-equipped kitchens.
West Fairchild (International Studies Residential College)
Willard Residential College was built as an all-female dormitory in 1938.[22] The dorm was originally named Willard Hall after Frances Willard, a women's suffragist and leader in the temperance movement who served as Northwestern's first dean of women in the early 1870s. It became the first co-ed housing on campus in 1970, and it was renamed Willard Residential College in 1972 when the dorm became a part of Northwestern's newly inaugurated Residential College program. Willard is the largest residential college at Northwestern University.
A dormitory, also known as a hall of residence or a residence hall, is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university students. In some countries, it can also refer to a room containing several beds accommodating people.
Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," the college offers more than three dozen degree and professional training programs specializing in the fields of arts and communication with a foundation in liberal arts studies. The college is one of the founding members of the ProArts Consortium, an association of six neighboring institutions in Boston dedicated to arts education at the collegiate level. Emerson is also notable for the college's namesake public opinion poll, Emerson College Polling.
Winona State University (WSU) is a public university in Winona, Minnesota. It was founded as First State Normal School of Minnesota in 1858 and is the oldest member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. It was the first normal school west of the Mississippi River.
The Radcliffe Quadrangle at Harvard University, formerly the residential campus of Radcliffe College, is part of Harvard's undergraduate campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Nicknamed the Quad, it is a traditional college quad slightly removed from the main part of campus.
O'Neill Family Hall is one of the 32 residence halls on the campus of the University of Notre Dame and one of the 16 male dorms. Built in 1996, the dormitory was funded by the O'Neill family from Midland, Texas.
The Boston University housing system is the 2nd-largest of any private university in the United States, with 76% of the undergraduate population living on campus. On-campus housing at BU is an unusually diverse melange, ranging from individual 19th-century brownstone town houses and apartment buildings acquired by the school to large-scale high-rises built in the 60s and 2000s.
North Campus is a mostly residential section of Cornell University's Ithaca, New York, campus, comprising the neighborhoods located north of Fall Creek. All freshmen are housed on North Campus as part of Cornell's common first-year experience and residential initiatives.
Washington University in St. Louis has varied programs and events for students.
The history of Northwestern University can be traced back to a May 31, 1850, meeting of nine prominent Chicago businessmen who shared a desire to establish a university to serve the former Northwest Territory. On January 28, 1851, the Illinois General Assembly granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University making it the first recognized university in Illinois. While the original founders were devout Methodists and affiliated the university with Methodist Episcopal Church, they were committed to non-sectarian admissions.
There are currently 33 undergraduate residence halls at the University of Notre Dame, including 32 active residence halls and Zahm Hall, which serves as a transition dorm when residence halls undergo construction. Several of the halls are historic buildings which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Each residence hall is single-sex, with 17 all-male residence halls and 15 all-female residence halls. Notre Dame residence halls feature a mixed residential college and house system, where residence halls are the center of the student life and some academic teaching; most students stay at the same hall for most of their undergraduate studies. Each hall has its own traditions, events, mascot, sports teams, shield, motto, and dorm pride. The university also hosts Old College, an undergraduate residence for students preparing for the priesthood.
The McCormick Road Dormitories are one of two main areas of first-year living dormitories at the University of Virginia, the other being the Alderman Road Dormitories. Ten houses make up the residence area located on McCormick Road. The dormitory area was constructed in 1950 and holds nearly 1300 students. Although older and lacking in modern amenities compared to "New Dorms," Old Dorms are closer to Central Grounds and contain larger rooms.
Housing at the University of Chicago includes seven residence halls that are divided into 48 houses. Each house has an average of 70 students. Freshmen and sophomores must live on-campus. Limited on-campus housing is available to juniors and seniors. The university operates 28 apartment buildings near campus for graduate students.
Housing at the University of Georgia is managed by the Department of University Housing. On campus housing for undergraduate students is divided into nine communities, and for graduate students into three communities.
College Houses are a major part of facilitating a community and experience amongst the undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania. Each house has one Faculty Director and one House Director, with at least two College House Fellows in residence. Many houses host a range of jobs for students, including Residential Advisors, House Councils, Managers and Information Technology assistants. The houses also encourage communities through the wide range of Program Communities within the system.
Fifteen percent of University of Houston students live on campus. UH has several on campus dormitories: Moody Towers, The Quads, Cougar Village I, Cougar Village II, Cougar Place, and University Lofts. UH also has partnerships with three private complexes, Bayou Oaks, Cullen Oaks, and Cambridge Oaks.
Stony Brook University is the largest residential campus in the State University of New York system, with approximately 54.5% of its students living on campus. Housing at Stony Brook is issued and controlled by Stony Brook University Campus Residences, which provides 9,445 spaces in its 11 corridor style buildings, 19 suite style buildings, and 23 apartment style buildings to Undergraduate students, Graduate students, and students' families. The large majority of on-campus housing is provided to students on the university's west campus, but housing is available to those on east campus, and for Stony Brook Southampton students.
The old Roycemore School building is a Northwestern University building that is included on the National Register of Historic Places. The structure had formerly housed the Roycemore School from its opening until 2012.
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