Where You'll Live: Lifestyle Floors
Intensified Study Floors
RIT is a university for serious students, and these floors promote an environment that encourages academic study groups and a more structured study atmosphere. Floor programs are centered around encouraging interpersonal relationships through academic, social, recreational, cultural, and athletic activities.
Wellness Lifestyle Option
If you're committed to a healthy lifestyle, the Wellness Lifestyle Option offers a chance to live with others who are nutrition conscious, engaged in fitness activities, and are familiar with wellness information. Students also agree not to smoke outside and bring the smell of smoke in on their clothing. Floor programs focus on health-related activities, group activities, and community development.
Alcohol/Substance-Free Lifestyle Option
RIT's alcohol policy prohibits possession, consumption, or evidence of alcohol in all residence halls. An increasingly popular option for many students is an alcohol and substance-free living arrangement.
These floors are for students who seek a coeducational living environment where residents and their guests agree to keep their living area free from alcohol at all times. Members agree to abstain from all non-prescribed mood-altering drugs. Students agree not to smoke outside and bring the smell of smoke in on their clothing. Life other lifestyle options, this program has been developed to create a healthy, proactive environment that supports students' academic and personal growth without limiting their enjoyment of the traditional college activities.
Students who are in recovery from alcohol and other substances or who come from families where addiction has been an issue might be interested in the One Day at a Time program, founded on principles of the 12-step program and offering weekly support meetings. Special programming and support services are available on an individual and/or group level.
Want more information? Please contact IMPACT, RIT's Alcohol and Drug Education Program, at (585) 475-7081, kmpshc@rit.edu, or SAISD, Substance and Alcohol Intervention Services for the Deaf, at (585) 475-4978 (Voice/TTY).
21 and Over Lifestyle Option
To create a more congenial atmosphere for adult students, this floor houses students who are 21 and over (for fall quarter move in, students must be 21 by September 1st). This is ideal for students who want a residence hall experience shared with older students.
Smoke Free Buildings
No smoking is allowed in any of RIT's Residence halls nor in the west-side residential quads.
Single-Sex Floors
If you prefer to live in a single-sex environment, you may request this option on your residence hall contract. Students may also be placed on a single-sex floor without requesting this option in order to maintain the balance of males and females on co-ed floors. Opposite-sex visitation is allowed on single-sex floors.
Honors Housing
Students who have been accepted into the RIT Honors Program have the opportunity to live in honors housing in Baker Hall, where they can build friendships and mutual support in the honors community while taking advantage of honors activities beyond the classroom. First-year honors students are encouraged to select honors housing, but may also choose other residence hall options, such as special-interest houses.
Living-Learning Communities
Students who have been accepted into a Living-Learning Community have the opportunity to take classes and live with a small group of cohorts from their college. Students will experience peer and faculty interaction and extracurricular activities that will enhance their personal and academic development.
Mainstream Floors
Mainstreamed floors where both deaf/hard-of-hearing and hearing students live are located in Ellingson, Peterson, Bell, and Gibson halls.
Housing Operations does not assign hearing and deaf/hard-of-hearing students as roommates unless both students request an assignment together. Students may be placed on a mainstream floor without requesting this option.
The RAs assigned to these floors have sign language skills and special training related to the needs of the hearing and deaf/hard-of-hearing population. RAs may be hearing or deaf/hard-of-hearing.
