The Office of Residence Life is excited to welcome you to Case Western Reserve University this fall. As a crucial part of the second-year experience, our residential communities are a proving ground for your personal and academic pursuits. The communities here aim to assist you in achieving your aspirations in unique and forward-thinking ways. Our goal is to help you ensure you are prepared for life beyond CWRU by finalizing and completing your major(s), minor(s), practicum(s) and other significant milestones that contribute to your successful journey toward graduation.
Second-Year Experience
The Second-Year Experience (SYE) program aims to provide residents with an environment to explore both new and deeper avenues for career and personal plans, and supports them as they define or sharpen a personal vision for their undergraduate career (and beyond). Our goal is to help you to build upon an already established foundation for success in college.
SYE communities aim to assist you during your transition into your new surroundings and to connect you with the university through various academic resources, exploring campus life, attending residence hall programs and connecting with our campus traditions. Our residential community directors and resident assistants will still live and work alongside you, but provide for increased autonomy. Second-year residential students have the opportunity to live in a variety of different housing types, ranging from traditional double bedrooms, to single bedrooms within a suite that is connected by a shared living room and bathroom, to apartment style living. This aims to foster a more controlled environment that requires shared accountability and individual responsibility, while maintaining ties to the broader community through community lounge spaces, the dining halls and experience-wide programming.
Carlton Road, Murray Hill, Fayette and Noyes constitute the four communities of the Second-Year Experience. Our SYE staff are always exploring new ways to help you connect to CWRU. You鈥檒l have plenty of chances to attend residence hall and floor programs planned by your resident assistant throughout the year. We also maintain annual traditions, which include SYE Welcome Week, Late Night Breakfast, Course Registration Party and more. These area-wide programs are open to all residential students and are great places for transfer students to make connections on campus.
Upperclass Experience
The Office of Residence Life is excited to welcome you to CWRU this fall. As a crucial part of the upper class experience, our residential communities are a proving ground as you achieve the many significant milestones that define your college career and transition into the future. Our goal is to help you to ensure you are prepared for life beyond CWRU as you finalize and execute plans for success post-graduation.
The Upperclass Experience (UCE) includes The Village at 115 and Stephanie Tubbs Jones Hall. Resources and mentors come from a large variety of sources, including academic departments, colleges or schools, student organizations, Post-Graduate Planning and Residence Life. Resident Assistants within UCE continue to provide support, guidance and peer mentorship through a residential lens. This is done with the student in mind, with an intentional shift toward the experience being student-led as residents plan and execute their personal journey and individual narrative.
Independent Living Experience
The Office of Residence Life is excited to welcome you to CWRU this fall. As a crucial part of the independent living experience, our residential communities are a proving ground as you achieve the many significant milestones that define your college career and transition into the future. Our goal is to help you to ensure you are prepared for life beyond CWRU as you finalize and execute plans for success post-graduation.
The Independent Living Experience (ILE) is housed across a variety of non-traditional residential facilities that provide increased autonomy to students that prefer more control over their experience. Each building is unique, and is designed to function like off-campus apartments that students will experience after graduation. In recognizing that some upperclass students desire a different type of campus connection, the ILE allows residents the opportunity to increase their independence while retaining the access to resources that on-campus living provides.
Residence Life, Housing and other campus services support all residents as they think critically about their future, determine effective strategies for sustaining academic success and ensure post-graduate planning for life beyond CWRU.