Assignments
New First Year and Transfer students apply for housing by submitting the Housing Response Form on eBear (part of the online Matriculation packet sent to students in late May / December) in order to request on-campus housing.
The Director of the First Year Focus Program makes room assignments for all first-year students. For transfer and visiting students, the Associate Director for Housing Operations makes room assignments on a space-available basis.
The information on your Housing Response Form serves as a guide to match you with another person(s). It is a time-honored tradition to read each Housing Response Form individually and match you with your roommates by hand. Each year this has lead to successful roommate pairings.
Requests specifying only one particular residence hall or type of accommodation cannot be considered, nor can roommate preference based upon race, ethnicity, religion, religious practices, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical characteristic, or national origin.
Any student with a diagnosed disability who may need some form of housing consideration (accessible housing, strobe fire alarm for a deaf student, etc) should contract Disability Services to complete a Disability-Related Housing Request (DRHR). More information is available at http://barnard.edu/reslife/disability/new.html.
First-Year Focus
The First-Year Focus (FYF) Program at Barnard is an extended orientation program for first-year students that continues throughout the year. It combines academic and co-curricular activities to assist first-year students in adjusting to college life, Barnard, and New York City. Entertaining and informative activities and workshops, ranging from informal weekly programs to larger formal events, are organized in the residence halls especially for first-year students.
Past programs have included room decorating contests, floor brunches, movie nights, workshops on stress management and reduction, healthy eating and numerous other activities! You can always find something to entertain yourself, educate yourself, or just take your mind off anything stressful!
FYF is dedicated to the integrity and personal growth of each individual. The goals and objectives of the program are to sponsor activities which assist students in making progress toward their educational and personal goals; developing academic and intellectual competence; establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships; developing personal identity; deciding on a career and lifestyle; maintaining personal health and wellness; and developing an integrated philosophy of life.
Within the FYF residence halls, certain floors are associated with In-Residence Seminars. Additionally, there is a Wellness Floor and an Eco Floor. Students interested in these floors should check the respective box on their Housing Response Form.
In-Residence Seminars – Students live on the same floor as other students taking the same First Year Seminar. This enables for more engaging conversations both in and out of the classroom.
Notification of your Room & Roommate Assignment
Room and roommate information will be made available to first year students the first week in August and to transfer students by the second or third week in August. No information regarding assignments will be available before that time.
