Honors Housing
Incoming Fall 2010 First-Year Students - If you have been admitted to LIHC, apply to live in the Honors Residence Hall by completing two steps:
- Complete an online interest form, specifically for Honors students interested in the Honors Residence Hall. We will use this form to assign priority, so sign up as soon as you can.
- Complete a housing application, including the $200 prepayment, for Housing & Residence Life. (See Housing & Residence Life's web site for more detailed information on New Student Housing Application & Assignment Process for 2010-2011.)
Returning students - Interested in living in the Honors Residence Hall in Fall 2010? You will need to do two things:
- Complete a housing application, including the $200 prepayment, for Housing & Residence Life. (See Housing & Residence Life's web site for more detailed information on Returning Student Housing Re-Application & Assignment Process for 2010-2011.)
- Complete an online form specifically for Honors students interested in the Honors Residence Hall. To access the form, click here.
If you are an Honors student interested in living in the Honors Residence Hall next year, but are not currently living on campus this year, you will be recategorized in our housing assignments system. This will enable you to select a specific room during the Returning Room Sign-Up process, which begins February 17, 2010.
The Honors Residence at North Spencer Hall, opening in the fall of 2010, provides an extraordinary, newly renovated space for Honors student activities on campus. Amenities include living space for over 200 Honors students, renovated bathrooms and laundry rooms, a classroom equipped with global video conferencing technology, office space for residence hall and Honors staff, and a beautiful, well-appointed Common Room that serves as a hub for the Honors community.
Centrally located on leafy College Avenue, North Spencer Hall was built in 1904, and is named after Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1826-1908), poet, social historian, and journalist.
Students in the Honors Residence will enjoy:
- On-site Honors advising
- Extended quiet hours
- Honors courses that meet in the hall's classroom
- Weekly "Food for Thought" lunches with faculty
- Monthly discussions with international students about "What in the World is Going On?"
- Film screenings, student recitals, guest lectures, and other events
The Honors Residence Hall is an environment that allows students to integrate their academic and social life, and in doing so challenges and supports them as they grow as scholars, citizens, and human beings.