Residence Halls

Residential students live in Hartley, Carman, John Jay, and Wien Halls, all of which are within a few minutes walk of most classroom buildings, the dining hall, the libraries, the students activities center, and the gym. Hartley Hall is arranged in suites accommodating approximately 12 students, with shared bathrooms, kitchens, and common areas. Most of the rooms in Hartley are singles; a few are doubles. Carman Hall is arranged in small suites comprised of two double rooms and a shared bathroom. John Jay and Wein are arranged in floors of mostly single rooms with a few doubles, with shared bathrooms along the corridor. Suites in Hartley and Carman and floors on John Jay and Wien are single-sex.

Every bedroom is provided with a bed, pillow, blanket, desk, chair, chest of drawers, closet, and either a window air conditioning unit or central air conditioning. Rooms are illuminated by fluorescent light. A loaner package of linen is provided to each residential student at the start of his or her stay. Included are two sheets, a pillowcase, two towels, and a washcloth. Students are responsible for laundering the linen.

Each room has a telephone with voicemail, which will receive incoming calls and can be used to make internal campus calls. Students may use cell phones, calling cards, or pay phones found in the dormitory lobbies for non-campus outgoing calls.

Free Internet access is provided to all rooms for students with computers equipped with Ethernet cards; students will need to bring or purchase their own Ethernet cords (please note that some rooms will require particularly long cords). Wireless access is available throughout most of the campus and in the main lounges on the ground floors of the dormitories but not throughout the dorms.

All public areas in each suite and on each floor are cleaned on a regular schedule.

The kitchens each contain a stove, sink, and cabinets. Kitchens are not equipped with cooking utensils or supplies, and any cooking other than very simple food preparation, like heating soup, is not encouraged. Please note that there are no kitchens in Carman Hall. Each suite in Hartley is equipped with a small refrigerator; each floor in the other buildings will have one or two small refrigerators.

Coin-operated washers and dryers are available in the basement of each of the residence halls.

Security personnel are stationed at entrances to the residence halls 24 hours a day. No individual without a University identification card or special clearance for dormitory access is allowed to enter a dormitory. Parents/guardians are allowed into the dorms only on check-in day, to help students move in. Non-residential High School Program students are not allowed into the dorms.

Students are supervised by live-in resident advisers who are responsible and carefully-selected college or graduate students. These resident advisers/ program assistants have completed an intensive two-week training program and are devoted to looking after the safety and well-being of students round-the-clock; they do not take classes or hold other jobs. The RA/student ratio is approximately 1 to 10. One or two RAs resides in each Hartley suite; several RAs live on each floor of the other buildings.

Housing assignments are made randomly; students cannot request housing in a particular building, on a particular floor, or in a particular suite or room. If, however, two students request to room together in a double room we will do our best to accommodate the request.