ABOUT US
Residential Education Office
OUR MISSION IS TO CREATE A POSITIVE ON-CAMPUS EXPERIENCE.
The Residential Education Office strives to provide safe and supportive on-campus living learning communities where diverse students are challenged to develop holistically; as scholars, citizens and leaders.
Residential education staff members are dedicated to providing curricular and co-curricular experiences to develop and enhance residents’ academic success, awareness, and appreciation of diversity and civic responsibility.
OUR VALUES
Residential Education's values are a set of core beliefs that guide our work with students, colleagues, faculty, and other constituents. While contributing to the goals of the University and the Division of Student Affairs, staff members of the Residential Education Office strive to:
Achieve excellence in all that we do
Address students as unique individuals with multidimensional needs and unlimited potential for personal development
Promote integrity, accountability, responsibility, respect, and collaboration
Promote the connectedness between curricular and co-curricular learning
Embrace, celebrate, and educate issues related to diversity
Develop communities that embrace civic responsibility, life-long learning, and healthy lifestyles
Maintain balance and perspective, serving as sound role models for others
Innovate, evaluate and refine programs to best meet the needs of the changing student population
The Residential Education Office upholds the Student Affairs and Campus Diversity Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, specifically:
“The Division of Student Affairs and Campus Diversity acknowledges and honors the inherent value and dignity of all individuals by creating and nurturing a learning and working environment that affirms and leverages our community’s diversity of traditions, heritages, perspectives, and experiences. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusive excellence designed to facilitate the personal and professional success, growth, development, and well-being of all members of our community. We manifest this commitment through our innovative, strategic and collaborative efforts to develop leaders who believe in and lead others toward practicing civility, mutual respect, and inclusion in our workplaces and society.”
OUR BUILDINGS & LEARNING COMMUNITIES
OUR RESIDENTIAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES
In these communities, students live together and take 1-2 classes together (General Studies 100 with other students from their floor section and General – Programming around the major or theme).
Adventures in Surfing & Sustainability
APIDA Leadership, Identity, Scholarship and Togetherness (A-LIST)
Black Excellence
Business
Comunidad
Discover San Diego State
Emerging Leaders Program
Future Education Professionals
Health and Healing Professions
Honors Residential College
Journalism and Media Studies
Journey Into Entrepreneurship
Men Engaged in Technology and Science (METS)
Multicultural Learning Community (MLC)
Nursing
Physical Fitness (P-Fit)
Pre-Law
PRIDE House
Toltec House for Undeclared Majors
Visual and Performing Arts
Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
Women and Gender Equity House (WAGE)
OUR RESIDENTIAL THEMATIC COMMUNITIES
These communities are based on a student's interest and there are no classes associated with these communities.
Sophomore Q.U.E.S.T.
Aztec Engineering
Substance Free
Extended Quiet Study
ROTC