We offer a wide variety of community living experiences to meet your needs and preferences as you grow and change during your college experience. We provide traditional housing experiences, living/learning communities, and more independent living arrangements. The Department of Residential Life has added some additional living/learning communities. A basic description is listed below about each community. Please note that by checking the Living/Learning Community, this will supersede all previous preferences that you listed on your original housing agreement and your room assignment will be made in the residence hall in which the Living/Learning community is housed.
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Honors Community:Students accepted into the University Honors program are strongly encouraged to consider living in the Honors Community on a co-ed floor in Case-Hill Hall. This living-learning community is designed to complement and support your academic work while also giving you opportunities to meet people and have fun. |
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Pride Community:The Department of Residential Life in collaboration with the LGBT Resource Center has developed the first all-gendered housing option at St. Cloud State University. This community will live in Benton Hall. All-gender housing allows same gender roommates, opposite gender roommates or other gender-identity roommate pairings in University operated housing. The community is designed as an intentional living community affirming the cultural experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, gender-queer, gender-variant, questioning and any other resident who does not fit into the gender binary, as well as their allies.
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Global Learning Community:Do you have an interest exploring other cultures and broadening your understanding of the world around you? If so, we invite you to be part of our Global Learning Community. The GLC, housed in Lawrence Hall and Coborn Plaza Apartments, will serve to provide opportunities for learning, personal and academic growth, and overall success in college. Both American and International students who know and enjoy learning foreign languages and who enjoy experiencing the customs and cultures of countries from around the globe are encouraged to join this unique living experience. The intention of the community is to broaden resident’s perspectives of the world around them. Special features of this community include participation in cultural nights, foreign language discussion groups, exploration of the many diverse opportunities SCSU offers, and close interaction with the Department of Foreign Languages, Education Abroad, and the Center for International Studies.
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Transfer Connections:The Department of Residential Life is pleased to offer an exciting living opportunity for our transfer students in Benton Hall. Participation in this living community will provide opportunities for transfer students to build university connections while transitioning successfully into a new college environment. In this community you will be surrounded by other transfer students from a range of institutions around the country who are experiencing similar challenges and successes while transitioning to SCSU. Special features of this community include the opportunity to live with a group of individuals who share common experiences and needs as a transfer student, participation in events planned only for transfer students (i.e., transfer socials, etc.) and connections to campus resources that promote academic success.
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The Journey Community:As a member of this community, located in Sherburne Hall, you will take courses along with other students in the ACE (Academic Collegiate Excellence) program who have agreed to start college early, serve the St. Cloud and SCSU community and work together to ensure a successful beginning to your collective college careers. Following the completion of the summer program, students will continue living in Sherburne for the remainder of their first year of college. For those ACE students not participating in the summer program, there will be space available in this community starting in the Fall semester.
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Recovery Community:St. Cloud State University is proud to announce the creation of a Recovery Community designed to provide a safe and welcoming environment where students in recovery can receive support while working to obtain a college degree. This residentially based program located in Coborn Plaza Apartments applies best practice strategies that assist students in developing the behaviors and skills necessary to allow them to succeed while in recovery. |
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Career Exploration Community: (New Fall 2013)Residents in the Career Exploration Living Community, located in Coborn Plaza Apartments will be provided opportunities to gain new knowledge and experiences to support their career development and enhance their educational experience while at St. Cloud State University. The focus of the community is to provide undeclared major students opportunities to assess their skills set and find a path that matches their interests and ambitions. The community will enhance the educational experience by providing learning and growth opportunities for career exploration through new skill development and also by putting those skills into practice.
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Service and Civic Engagement Community: (New Fall 2013)
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Health and Human Services: (New Fall 2013)The HHS Living Learning Community is designed for students who are engaged in HHS curriculum at St. Cloud State University. Students living in this community housed in Sherburne Hall will explore the HHS fields, commit to academic success in order to best prepare themselves for their desired degree program, and develop personal connections with both student peers and professionals in the field. Academic success will be achieved through study skill development, regular group study sessions, a peer study buddy program, academic goals setting, and collaboration with HHS faculty. |
