Living and Learning Community

Architecture | Living Learning Community

Baccalaureate architecture students can study live, work, and engage with their faculty, all in their own residence hall (MacKenize South). The ALLC provides access to architecture work labs, study space, and a gallery.

Creative House | Living Learning Community

Designed specifically for students in the digital media & animation or graphic & media design programs, this Living Learning Community (LLC) features studio workspaces for its residents. Students live and learn with like-minded colleagues in a space made for productive and creative collaboration. With large screen monitors, a production studio, a space to screen work, and other extras, students who live in the Creative House LLC are prepared to hit the ground running on their creative projects. Submit your application online today Creative House LLC Application. (use your Alfred State username and password to login).

Gaming | Living Learning Community

Designed specifically for new incoming students who are interested in console gaming, creating engaging events, and fostering a sense of community, this Living Learning Community (LLC) features a gaming lounge for its residents. Students live and develop programs with like-minded colleagues and are supported by our GamesNation club in a space equipped with several TVs and gaming consoles. The premise of this LLC is to welcome new students to campus and to create a gaming culture within a residence hall. We aim to develop engaging events with upperclassmen who are already a part of GamesNation and will act as mentors throughout your time in this LLC. This LLC will be located in Peet Hall. Submit your application online today Gaming LLC Application.

Exploratory | Living Learning Community

The Exploratory LLC at Alfred State is for Liberal Arts, EDGE, and Exploratory/Undeclared students to create a positive and encouraging space for new students interested in career and course exploration. Members of the LLC will have access to a variety of programmed activities to help build out student skill sets, assess potential career pathways, and work together to discover, develop, and hone their individual and collective strengths in academics and beyond. The LLC will also host an Advising-in-Residency (AiR) system, in which LLC students can connect with staff from Career Services, Success Coaching and Academic Advising in the comfort and convenience of their dorm.

Exploratory EDGE | Living Learning Community

The Exploratory EDGE LLC is for incoming EDGE students starting their first semester here at Alfred State College. Members of this LLC will have access to a variety of programmed activities to help build out student skill sets, assess potential career pathways, and work together to discover, develop, and hone their individual and collective strengths in academics and beyond. The LLC will host an Advising-in-Residency (AiR) system, in which LLC students can connect with staff from Career Services, Success Coaching and Academic Advising in the comfort and convenience of their dorm. Members of this LLC will also be enrolled in a Summer Bridge Program, in which they will be able to move in early and engage in a variety of fun activities meant to encourage good academic practices and student success before the semester begins.

Intercultural Living Exchange | Living Learning Community

The Intercultural Living Exchange is a living learning community designed for upper class End who exemplify and promote acceptance through engagement across differences. This community is open to all who wish to live and learn amongst a culturally eclectic group of peers. We are all cultural beings, and this community seeks to celebrate diversity in all its forms. An important component of this community is a commitment to not only actively foster one’s own cultural humility but to play an active role in promoting and enhancing campus and community programs geared towards intercultural development.

All residents will have the opportunity to take the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), an internationally recognized assessment that helps measure how attuned groups or individuals are at engaging cultural nuance and complexity. Participants can then intentionally enhance their cultural growth through the Intercultural Development Plan, creating a unique pathway for cultural growth (be it through enriching ones connection with their own cultural groupings or expanding knowledge and appreciation of another culture).

In addition, residents will have opportunities to develop their leadership skills through active participation in the developing, coordinating, and facilitating cultural enrichment programs supported by the Director of Global Engagement and Civic Wellbeing.

If you are a student interested in this Living Learning Community please apply here.

Cultural Life | Living Learning Community

The Cultural Life community is open to incoming first-year students at Alfred State and will provide math and writing labs to residents to assist with supplemental instruction. Residents will participate in programs centered around diversity, inclusion, and civic engagement. This community has Academic Peer Mentors and Community Support Mentors to assist students in their transition to college. Additionally, residents in this community will have programming and leadership development opportunities provided to them directly from the Cultural Life Center team.

These programs are geared around the concept of cultural humility and will focus on building culturally humble/ informed student leaders. If you're interested in living in this community, submit your application online. (use your Alfred State username and password to login).

Nursing | Living Learning Community

First-year nursing students have the opportunity to become part of a community within Burdick Hall dedicated to helping new students transition into the nursing curriculum. In addition to participating in a cohort seminar led by nursing faculty within their residence hall, the NLLC provides an atmosphere with enhanced opportunities to learn from and connect with their faculty.

Summer Prep Academy | Living Learning Community

Students accepted into the EOP program will attend Summer Prep Academy four weeks throughout July and August. These first-year students will have the option of remaining in their summer housing building without the stress of relocating to another residence hall room for the fall semester. The SPA Living Learning Community will allow SPA students to continue to live with their EOP cohort and maintain regular contact with their summer SPA mentors throughout the academic year.