Two new residence halls help meet the growing student demand for a 24-hour aday, seven-day a week campus experience. Four additional halls are scheduled for construction by 2009 when our residential population will reach 3,330 students - 40 percent of fulltime undergraduates.

The expansion of residential spaces on campus is part of the creation of a "learning village", where student interaction, creativity, and community-building, continues throughout the day and evening, inside and outside of the classroom.

Each new four-story residence hall will be comprised of three wings. Four to five
suites – which include two double rooms and a bathroom – will be clustered around a common lounge. The cluster design allows students to interact in a more comfortable setting, and yet maintain their privacy.

Lounges face the fronts of the buildings, which will feature glass window façades designed to maximize light and take advantage of wooded views of the campus. Each residence hall will be pre-wired for Internet usage, barrier free for wheelchair accessibility, and include a laundry room and a large lounge on the ground floor. One of the residence halls will include a classroom and a seminar room, to be used for academic and student activities programming. The buildings were designed by Seyffer & Koch Architectural Group of Glen Rock, in association with H2L2 of Philadelphia.

The new facilities are an important aspect of the University’s pursuit of its Student Success Plan andFacilities Master Plan, which recognize the continually growing student demand for on-campus living and the student development benefits available to residential students. The University is currently in the midst of a $40 million expansion and renovation of the Machuga Student Center, designed to meet the wide-ranging needs of the institution’s commuter and resident students.