Residences and Residential Education

Intellectual and social growth is as likely to take place in the residences as it is in the classroom. Learning is linked to the residential experience through Resident Fellows, members of the faculty or senior staff who live in residence halls and help provide a warm and intellectually stimulating environment. Working closely with the Resident Fellows are Resident Assistants, juniors and seniors who offer personal and academic counseling.

Popular in-house activities organized by students include faculty dinners, international holiday celebrations, weekly current events discussions, house seminars, poetry readings and film series.

Student housing options include

• Four-class houses
• All-freshman houses
• Small and large dormitories
• Co-ops and self-ops
• Greek (fraternity/sorority) housing

Some houses concentrate on academic themes, such as Business, East European culture or the French, Italian and German languages, while ethnic theme houses explore diverse cultures -- for example, Chicano/Latino (Casa Zapata), Native American (Muwekma-tah-ruk), Asian American (Okada) and African American (Ujamaa).

Freshman-Sophomore College
Freshman-Sophomore College provides an unparalleled residential education to 180 students. The College offers on-location seminars, some of which begin or conclude with faculty dinners; communication workshops to improve public speaking skills; study groups organized around common courses; and presentations at the dean's house.

Related information:

Residential Education Website

Residential and Dining Enterprises

Web pages for Stanford residence halls

Home to roughly 200 students, Kimball Hall is one of the newest residence halls on campus.