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Learn to thrive and honor God through community with your peers. Residence Life pursues five themes: Student Engagement, Academic Success, Inclusion and Belonging, Life after College, and Self-Care and Wellness. We also stand on 5 Pillars which are Jesus, Neighbor, Community, Discipleship, and Accountability.

Living on campus provides experiences that include making new friends, facing new challenges, and developing memories that will last you a lifetime. Living within the campus community is an important aspect of a student鈥檚 personal development and education. Research continues to demonstrate that 草莓视频APPwho live on campus benefit in a number of ways. In fact, 草莓视频APPwho live on campus beyond their freshman year*:

  • Are more likely to persist and graduate
  • Gain more interpersonal contacts with faculty and peers
  • Experience greater personal growth and development
  • Have higher academic engagement and grade point average
  • Have higher social-interpersonal engagement
  • Participate more in out-of-class activities
  • Have more positive and inclusive attitudes and openness to diversity
  • Find more satisfaction with their undergraduate experience

*Source: How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research by Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers

Requirements

草莓视频APP Southern requires all 草莓视频APPunder 20 years of age who are enrolled as full-time students, do not live locally, and are classified as a dependent (except veterans and married couples) to live on campus. Students must reach the age of 20 prior to the start of a major semester to reside off-campus. Students over 20 years of age, who have not previously been a resident, must have the Dean of Student鈥檚 approval to reside on-campus. We make every effort to house 草莓视频APPwho desire to reside in the residence halls.

Your room sign-up indicates tentative approval to reside on campus, and your place is reserved. However, please be advised that in the event we have a shortage of housing for 草莓视频APPunder the age of 20, it may be necessary to adjust the number of 草莓视频APPover the age of 20 we are permitting to live on-campus.

For further questions about this policy, contact the dean of 草莓视频APPoffice at 843-863-8008.