The Office of Residence Life at St. John’s University aims to
strengthen the learning community for all students by providing
opportunities for intellectual, spiritual, and personal development
that complement those offered in the classroom. Residence Life
significantly expands the opportunity for such development since
the resident students are immersed in the campus environment.
The goal of the Office of Residence Life is to foster personal
responsibility, social awareness, and student leadership through
programs and activities consistent with the values of the
University’s mission.
Becoming a member of the St. John’s residential community
involves students with the special opportunity to live, learn and
grow together. This necessitates the creation of set expectations
and community standards in order to develop a respectful,
thoughtful and educational environment. Our community is a place
where a developed sense of integrity and the ability to make good
decisions is highly esteemed. It is a place where we celebrate
diversity and expressly repudiate discrimination. Also, we are
interdependent for the fulfillment of certain needs, and therefore,
living in the St. John’s residential community asks each of us to
adopt an active understanding of the Residence Hall Policies.
The Residence Life staff has studied housing programs at other
institutions and evaluated several options that have been
successfully implemented on other campuses. After much study,
review of the process used in previous years, as well as student
and parent feedback received, we have developed a plan to address
the excess demand for housing.