The mission of the Office for Residence Life is to provide students with a well-maintained, comfortable and secure living environment, and an educationally purposeful community living experience.

Residence Life accomplishes this by

• Fostering a welcoming residential community that emphasizes civility, responsibility and mutual respect;
• Offering support services to meet individual student needs;
• Providing integrated academic and co-curricular learning opportunities to promote personal growth and development;
• Selecting and training a quality student staff of Resident Assistants to serve as peer leaders and peer educators in the residence halls;
• Collaborating with Facilities Management, Custodial Services, Public Safety and other University departments charged with maintaining and servicing campus facilities.