First Year Area Always Home
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Upcoming Events
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Welcome to Trinity University! Life in our residence halls is one of the most exciting new experiences of college, and it can also be one of the most overwhelming. The first year area is comprised of seven buildings on the east side of campus, clustered together so all first year students can experience a vibrant and supportive community. These buildings include Beze, Calvert, Herndon, McLean, Miller, Winn and Witt. Residents live in small groups of about 18 with a Resident Mentor. Your Resident Mentor Resident Mentors (RMs) are carefully selected and extensively trained upper-class leaders (sophomores, juniors or seniors) who work as paraprofessionals on the Residential Life Staff. Their primary role is to support a small group of about 18 first year students, building a fun, healthy and respectful community among your neighbors. Your RM will guide you through New Student Orientation (NSO) all the way to the end of the year. Throughout the fall semester, your RM will host fun activities to break from studying and get to know other students. Your Resident Mentor group will also discuss the ups and downs of college life: staying healthy, getting along with your roommate, doing well in college classes and making choices about relationships and alcohol. Take time to get to know your RM. He or she will be one person you know you can trust to look out for your best interests and encourage you to take positive risks. RMs know you may make mistakes and sometimes have to hold you accountable to campus policy, but they will also help you learn from those experiences. Your first year is a time of significant independence from life at home. Your RM is there to help make Trinity feel like home, too.
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Recent Programs
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First Year Area Programming The Trinity University Residential Life educational programming model incorporates Chickering’s Theory of Student Development (7 vectors) as well as the Social Change Model of Leadership. The Residential Life Office at Trinity utilizes this hybrid model to assist in the development of students in a phased process which begins with an intensive first year curriculum and ends with an autonomous senior year experience. The model is designed to offer purposeful programs and services specific to three major classifications of students who are all housed together: The First Year Area, Sophomore College, and the Upper-class Area. Click on the logos to learn more about these unique programs.
The REAL LIFE model utilizes an intensive series of programs designed to assist first year students with their transition into college. Students will have fun, build relationships, and actively reflect on the process of entering adulthood. Our specially trained staff will offer programs about living away from home, roommate success, healthy eating habits and lifestyles, alcohol and drugs, educational success, freedom and citizenship, love lessons, and identity exploration. |
