Winston-Salem State University

If there's a student who's struggling, may need some clothing, may need help getting some food here and there. We have a lot of support in regard to student engagement. We have a lot of students who come from California, D.C. area. When they come here, it's a big culture shock, really. And so we have we have the food pantry that is student-run and student-led. We also have the clothing pantry and its professional clothing.

 Students are in a small cohort of other students that will actually get to understand, find other networks, maybe roommate with them. We introduce students to several on-campus support agencies. One is called our tutoring services. And so it is in the same building where your academic success, counselor, is this individual will lead you for the first two years, and then you will be connected to your major advisor, which will lead you to graduation.

We also have emergency funds that students can apply for. This can go towards anything, whether it's food, whether it's adjusting to life, whether it's getting a new computer, whatever it may be. If you can justify it and apply for it, you may get it. The other thing what's so great about our campus is our counselors. Every student is connected to a counselor. We also have a meditation room in the counseling suite. We also have a 24-hour tutoring.

As a freshman we do have dorms allocated just for freshmen. We do have some dorms that are just for girls, but we do have dorms that are for coed as well. You are there again with all the other freshmen. You have the lobby areas. You come out and enjoy your friends. There are programs so that they can engage with each other and students in different buildings. We sometimes have competitions between other buildings kind of getting, you know, a little friendly competition going.

But we offer free laundry services for you, and another thing about freshman dorms is it is on our main campus, so it's not like you're thrown anywhere. You got to learn the campus on your own. You're close to all of your resources, like the cafeteria or Hill Hall, which is our student success center.

We have a big state-of-the-art two-lane basketball court with a whole state-of-the-art aerobics center, which is our three-story gym with your ellipticals, aerobics rooms, bicycles, you name it. We're known for our Fried Chicken Wednesdays and our Friday fish fry. We have Chick Fillet, we have Subway, we have a Burger Studio, and we have Tokyo's Pizza. We also have Einstein’s Bagel, and we have Starbucks.