Housing and Residential Experience provides safe, secure, comfortable, accessible, and healthy housing for its residents.
In partnership with faculty and staff from across the University, Housing and Residential Experience professionals work to build and steward active and engaged communities where values of care, connection, scholarship and leadership are nurtured in a culture of collegiality. Residential Experience staff foster interactions among students and faculty and support students’ scholarly pursuits and personal growth. Values of civility, belonging, accountability, discovery, and celebration are the core of Vanderbilt’s residential communities.
Housing and Residential Experience employs a compassionate group of upper-division, graduate, and professional students as Resident Advisers (RAs), Head Resident Advisers (HRAs), and Graduate Area Coordinators (GACs). Professional, in-residence staff supervise the aforenoted paraprofessional staff. The collective Residential Experience staff, in cooperation with Residential Colleges and other campus partners, organizes and coordinates social, educational, and recreational programs throughout the residences.