Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Communities

Sophomores, juniors, and seniors reside in a variety of housing styles that allow each individual to tailor their campus experience and live within a community that allows for the integration of their experiences both inside and outside of the classroom. Housing options for sophomores, juniors, and seniors include traditional residence halls, such as Bloomington Street Hall, Lucy Rowland Hall, Mason Hall, and Senior Hall, and apartment-style housing within Rector Village, and University-Owned Apartments and Houses. Students who are affiliated with a fraternity or sorority typically reside in their chapter facility beginning their sophomore year. 

Various housing options aim to have students leave DePauw prepared to enter an increasingly complex and diverse world as a productive citizen contributing to their local community. Through the housing selection process for university-owned housing, sophomores, juniors, and seniors can opt into residing within an intentional community or general living as well as select their housing from the options available at their selection date and time. The housing selection process occurs in March each academic year. 

Resident Assistants

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

All residential communities have a team of Resident Assistants that work to support the student experience and transition. Resident Assistants works along with the Housing and Residence Life Coordinators to implement a co-curriculum that outlines a series of programs that provide important resources, involvement and community development opportunities throughout the academic year. Housing and Residence Life works to manage the residential spaces and maintain residential and university policies.

Intentional Communities

Rainbow Community

This intentional community serves as a space to enable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning students and their advocates to connect and live in a respectful space. All students are welcome to live in the Rainbow Community with an understanding that the space serves as an affirming home for all expressions of gender and sexuality. Additionally, restrooms within these communities are gender inclusive. All residents and their guests will be expected to be respectful and sensitive to all identities within the LGBTQIA+ community. In collaboration with the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, the Rainbow Community will offer specific resources, events, and create intentional opportunities for social and interpersonal connections.

Transfer Student Living Learning Community

This residential community supports students transitioning from another college or university into the DePauw community. This community is open to all students with the intention to connect transfer students with each other to develop a sense of belonging in a new environment. Residents will also have the opportunity to participate in academic, social, and professional development opportunities tailored to transfer students. Housing and Residence Life will prioritize placement of incoming transfer students for the fall term within this community. Incoming transfer students for the spring term will be placed within this community pending availability. 

Additional Resources

Please explore the links to the left to learn more about sophomore, junior, and senior communities in university-owned housing or about residing in a fraternity or sorority chapter facility.