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Residence Experience
Enhance Your Experience
There are many ways for you to get involved and enhance your residence experience at Laurier.
- A Residence Learning Community (RLC) is a themed residence community where students share a common interest. Application deadline is June 1.
- Learning Clusters (Brantford) provide students with the opportunity to engage in programming with others who share a common interest. Application deadline is June 1.
- Our First-Year Leadership Programs (FYLP) create opportunities for students living in residence to find their fit.
- Themed Environments (Waterloo) are for students who are interested in living in a community that appeals to a more structured lifestyle preference.
Residence Learning Goals
The Department of Residence will take a holistic approach to fostering inclusive communities by facilitating developmental experiences that foster a sense of belonging and self-authored leadership in first-year students. All developmental efforts will be grounded in residence's five departmental learning goals.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Community
Develop a sense of belonging and contribute positively as a caring and accountable citizen of the community. Students will develop community with those different from the self in an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and accessible community.
Life Skills
Students will learn and develop the self-management skills necessary to live independently while striving for personal wellness. Students will explore strategies for wellness and resilience.
Academic Curiosity & Success
A space for students to explore their academic pursuits and passions, developing the skills necessary to thrive academically while exploring academic interests and co-curricular activities. Laying the academic foundation for student retention and persistence to graduation.
Self-Awareness
Clarify personal identity in relation to one’s values and what it means to act in congruence with them. Navigate the connections between understanding self, others and reflect on one’s impact on others. Create clarity of purpose while at Laurier and beyond.
Indigeneity
By discovering and learning about indigeneity, students will engage in learning experiences that increase one’s positionality within colonialism. Students will learn about the process of reconciliation and how to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into their experience as a student at Laurier.
Residence Affinity Groups
Affinity Groups are a place for students with specific identities to come together in community, share their experiences, and offer a safe space for students who have historically been left out of higher education to form meaningful relationships with one another. The purpose of all Residence Collectives is to provide safe and fun spaces for equity-denied groups to create community with each other.
We will be offering the following three affinity groups this upcoming year:
Recognizing the unique and varied experiences Black students may face, the Residence Black Student Collective aims to foster a sense of belonging for, and facilitate relationship building among Black residents. All of the Residence Collectives recognize and welcome the complex intersecting identities students may bring to this space.
Recognizing that students of colour face varied experiences, the Residence Students of Colour Collective aims to foster a sense of belonging for, and facilitate relationship building among residents of colour. All of the Residence Collectives recognize and welcome the complex intersecting identities students may bring to this space.
Recognizing the varied experiences 2SLGTBQ+ students may face, the Residence Rainbow Collective aims to foster a sense of belonging for, and facilitate relationship building among 2SLGBTQ+ and Questioning residents. All of the Residence Collectives recognize and welcome the complex intersecting identities students may bring to this space.
For more information on how to join one of the Residence Affinity Groups, please visit The Department of Residence’s Instagram account @laurierresidence or speak directly with your Don or Residence Education Advisor.