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Residence
Learning is not confined to the classroom but can take place
whenever there is a meeting of the minds...in the dining hall
or coffee shop, along the campus walkways, in classrooms and
study rooms, in the dormitory common rooms, even on the basketball
court.  These
meetings are more likely to occur in a residential community
than when students see each other infrequently because their
education is but one facet competing with busy off-campus
lives. To help make the four years of their undergraduate
studies as fruitful as possible, then, the College requires
unmarried students to live on campus unless they can live
with their families or are granted special permission by the
Dean to live off-campus. Since by this requirement the College
intends to establish a community of learning, such permission
is not usually given. Lodging for married students is not
provided.
The members of the Student body are housed in six permanent
residence halls. Men live in Sts. Peter and Paul Hall, Blessed
Junipero Serra Hall and St. Bernard’s Hall, while women
take up residence in St. Monica Hall, St. Therese of Lisieux
Hall or St. Katherine’s. Dormitory rooms are suitable
for two students. Freshmen are assigned roommates; in ensuing
years, students generally select their own roommates.
 Student
prefects are selected by the Dean and the Assistant Dean for
Student Affairs and are assigned to the dormitories to help
maintain the rules of the College which sustain and promote
a close-knit community. Large common rooms in each dormitory
encourage a family-like environment.
In keeping with the need for privacy, men's and women's dormitories
are always off limits to the opposite sex. The possession
or use of alcohol or illegal drugs in the dormitories - as
elsewhere on campus - is strictly forbidden and may entail
expulsion from the program.
Please follow the links below to see pictures of each of
the College's permanent residence halls:
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